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
The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl reports that the overall personal-savings rate soared from 8 percent to 32 percent: People are avoiding air travel and restaurants not because they are impecunious but because they are prudent.
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2021
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
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.