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unprosperous











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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

Though he considered the desire to accumulate wealth an overwhelmingly powerful motive for humanity in general, he chose for himself what he called the "unprosperous" profession of scholar and man of letters.

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




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