impecuniousness

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This was a period defined by impecuniousness; in his 20s he shared a tatty Lower East Side apartment with rodents.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2015

There were young men, of varying degrees of attractiveness, station, and impecuniousness, who wanted to marry her.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent

Having seen him anxious from time to time, and suspecting his student's impecuniousness, Marechal had of his own accord offered and lent him money, a few hundred francs perhaps, forgotten by both, and never repaid.

From Pierre and Jean by Maupassant, Guy de

There was reason for believing that David's stolid silence regarding his own concerns concealed a general impecuniousness quite as pronounced as that of the artist friends whose cause he pleaded.

From War-time Silhouettes by Hudson, Stephen

She liked him the better for a rugged independence, which in the days of his impecuniousness her brother Fillmore had never dreamed of exhibiting.

From The Adventures of Sally by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)