impecunious

Example Sentences

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After a failed engagement, Locksley flees the city to settle in a village on the Atlantic coast, where he allows his new neighbors to believe he is an impecunious artist.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Fans and players relatively unscathed, the pyramid structure affirmed, the current season’s integrity retained, clubs in trouble helped and the 14’s own playing staff not raided by clubs so impecunious they need their own goldmine.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2021

The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl reports that the overall personal-savings rate soared from 8 percent to 32 percent: People are avoiding air travel and restaurants not because they are impecunious but because they are prudent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2021

But it’s easy to imagine Murray approving of Grotelueschen’s original take on a writer who has been blocked so long he’s become almost inured to the impecunious horror of his life.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2019

She had no understanding of her husband’s work and, having been raised among the minor rural gentry, she despised his impecunious profession.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan