impecunious

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The first is the remarkable development of the anxious, impecunious and socially awkward Tennyson into the most celebrated poet of late 19th-century England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

His grandfather was a servant, and his father, John Dickens, was an impecunious minor civil servant ultimately sent to the notorious debtors’ prison, Marshalsea.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020

In my days as an impecunious young cineaste, there was the Tolmer cinema in Euston, the cheapest picturehouse in London, or anywhere – two shillings a time.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2020

He wrote in a Nobel biography that he grew up in an environment of “secure but impecunious Midwestern academics.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2020

She had no understanding of her husband’s work and, having been raised among the minor rural gentry, she despised his impecunious profession.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan