impecuniosity

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Contrasted with the magnificence of the Habsburg Court, her impecuniosity is a greater hardship than it would be to an ordinary person, especially as she has five children to support.

From Time Magazine Archive

To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hollywood's swashbuckling monument to impecuniosity has been dead for ten years, but Daughter Deirdre Flynn, 24, seems to be upholding the family name.

From Time Magazine Archive

In her case, the impecuniosity which Ruskin regards as so often fatal to the aspirations of young and ambitious artists, appears to have been the strongest incentive.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.

“Truth is stranger than fiction,” and it follows, therefore, that such instances of self-abnegation induced by impecuniosity have been and will be found.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.