badly off, broken, deprived of, down-and-out, failed, impecunious, in the gutter, innocent, necessitous, penniless, poverty-stricken, void
Definitionadj. poor enough to need help from others
Last update: March 21, 2017
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Give the clothes to the destitutes. [verb]
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Like those of the Wick river, its banks are totally destitute of wood. [adjective]
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Many of the most destitute women in our study fell into one or both of these categories. [adjective]
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It has already been stated that the upper half of the island was a naked rock, and destitute of any other defenses than a few scattered logs of driftwood. [adjective]
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As he was destitute of any other means of defense, his safety now depended entirely on bodily strength and resolution. [adjective]
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Marriage protecting the child, yet thousands of children destitute and homeless. [adjective]
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They must have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob's Island. [adjective]
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Marriage protecting the child, yet thousands of children destitute and homeless. [adjective]
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The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. [adjective]
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I had lived a dreadful life, perfectly destitute of the knowledge and fear of God. [adjective]
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Edwin Epps was a person utterly regardless of a black man's rights or wrongsutterly destitute of any natural sense of justice, as I well knew. [adjective]
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