impecuniosity

NOUN

poverty

Synonyms

WEAK

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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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

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

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

With a couple of companions Watty Scott was in the unenviable position of being left high and dry on the strand of impecuniosity.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.

This episode in the life of Piron is one of the brightest romances of impecuniosity.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.

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