pauperize

Example Sentences

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Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Runaway price boosts might wipe out savings, pauperize individuals, bring down governments —but usually in only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Don’t those things tend to pauperize the poor?”

From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

The manner of giving it has changed, however, that it may be free from all tendency to pauperize or to deprive the recipient of self-respecting effort.

From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck

Cheque-charity may harden the heart of him who gives, and pauperize him who takes.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir