impecunious
adjective
having little or no money; penniless; poor.
impecuniosity
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a word derived from
impecunious.
Example Sentences
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Hollywood's swashbuckling monument to impecuniosity has been dead for ten years, but Daughter Deirdre Flynn, 24, seems to be upholding the family name.
From Time Magazine Archive
Contrasted with the magnificence of the Habsburg Court, her impecuniosity is a greater hardship than it would be to an ordinary person, especially as she has five children to support.
From Time Magazine Archive
To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this I agree to a certain extent; but I claim for impecuniosity certain charms and characteristics not associated with poverty.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
If culture could avail against the deteriorating effects of impecuniosity the career of Orator Henley would have been a different one.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
