impecunious
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Protagonist Louden Swain, a high-school senior, can’t fathom why Elmo, an older and impecunious cook at the hotel where they’re both employed, is missing work to watch him wrestle.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 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
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