badly off, distressed, embarrassed, hard up, in in narrow circumstances, in straitened circumstances, narrow, out of pocket, poor, poverty-stricken, short, short of funds, squeezed, strapped, unprosperous
Definitionadj. not having enough money to pay for necessities
Last update: August 30, 2015
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He is an impecunious student. [adjective]
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The impecunious were locked up and deprived of all hope of earning means to obtain enlargement; while their families and persons dependent on them shared their imprisonment and added to the overcrowding. [adjective]
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The impecunious monarch submitted to the dictation of the diet in the hope of obtaining sufficient money to prosecute his ambitious designs. [adjective]
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It is not conceivable that such a ridiculous display of impecunious justice would be made elsewhere in the country. [adjective]
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The figure of noble bearing on the top of the shaft is the idealization of subsequent events, and probably but illy corresponds with the actual appearance of the impecunious reality. [adjective]
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I am one, the Grand Gulf and Northern, the impecunious one. [Please select]
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Their return with a fortune of pelts was the salvation of the impecunious governor. [Please select]
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(Miss Lascelles was the portionless daughter of the impecunious younger son of a poor nobleman.) [Please select]
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It had been with the impecunious theological student who was her tutor. [Please select]
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Impecunious princes and potentates have been known to replenish their purses in this way, though hitherto usually by private sale rather than market quotations. [Please select]
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After leaving the High School her father had for four years allowed her a private tutor (an impecunious graduate from the Harvard Theological School). [Please select]
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