impecunious
adjective
having little or no money; penniless; poor.
impecuniousness
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a word derived from
impecunious.
Example Sentences
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This was a period defined by impecuniousness; in his 20s he shared a tatty Lower East Side apartment with rodents.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2015
Having seen him anxious from time to time, and suspecting his student's impecuniousness, Marechal had of his own accord offered and lent him money, a few hundred francs perhaps, forgotten by both, and never repaid.
From Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
They offended the fastidious aristocrats with whom he associated, and combined with his impecuniousness to make him seem unsuitable for a great place.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
Before and after the New Orleans time not the least of Hearn's misfortunes was his intolerable and brutalizing improvidence and impecuniousness.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
She liked him the better for a rugged independence, which in the days of his impecuniousness her brother Fillmore had never dreamed of exhibiting.
From The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
