impecuniosity
Example Sentences
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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
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
If there is any doubt as to Charlotte Cushman’s success being attributable to impecuniosity the case of O’Brien, the celebrated Irish giant, is most clear.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
With despair in his heart he still wrote on, simply because the labour in which he had delight physicked the pains of impecuniosity.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
