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impecuniosity

NOUN

poverty

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abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit depletion destitution difficulty distress emptiness exiguity famine hardship impecuniousness impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency lack meagerness necessitousness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penuriousness penury pinch poorness privation reduction scarcity shortage starvation straits underdevelopment vacancy want

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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

When you have hit on a suitable match for your heiress during an epidemic of impecuniosity, it is well to be assured that the fortunate spouse is not a greedy gold-seeker.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

There was a general laugh, for Charley Mansfield was notoriously in a general state of impecuniosity.

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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