impecunious
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After a failed engagement, Locksley flees the city to settle in a village on the Atlantic coast, where he allows his new neighbors to believe he is an impecunious artist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
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
And the tales still told of talented but impecunious riders scrapping their way to the Classic on the back of some gifted nag discovered in a barnyard seem more than ever like myth.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
And the greatest hue and cry came from Rob Hall, who was leading a small, impecunious New Zealand team.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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