unprosperous
- a word derived from prosperous.
Example Sentences
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Still, an unprosperous northern childhood and those years of observing mental illness – and the world’s responses to it – continue to serve him at the age of 52.
From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018
Child’s cookbook, Wheaton said, is a ‘‘slice of life as lived by unprosperous New Englanders in the 1820s and ’30s.’’
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2015
He’s not unprosperous, but he’s not very prosperous; he’s not going make out well off.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2012
Basic cause: The unprosperous situation in real estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
