impecunious
Example Sentences
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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
We’re not talking public or academic institutions, but what any impecunious collector vainly covets — an English country-house library or what Byers calls a “bookwrapt” study like that of Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
Fans and players relatively unscathed, the pyramid structure affirmed, the current season’s integrity retained, clubs in trouble helped and the 14’s own playing staff not raided by clubs so impecunious they need their own goldmine.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2021
As a young, eager-to-please novelist, he had transformed his impecunious father into the whimsical and charming Mr. Micawber of “Copperfield”; after his father’s death came a more selfish and unforgiving version in “Little Dorrit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
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