impecuniosity
Example Sentences
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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
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
It was impossible to pacify her, and the victims of impecuniosity saw that the woman’s proposal was the only means of escaping from disgrace and humiliation.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.
It is not that there is any scarcity of cases of great misfortune in connection with impecuniosity, but the circumstances connected with such cases are not so apparently the result of accident.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.
