pampered
Example Sentences
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On Black Thursday, 1929, the day the stock market collapsed, Wall Street was a scene of chaos, and many a suddenly paupered stockholder felt that the end of the world had come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wars, he held, are for the crowded old peoples of Europe, with their dynastic superstitions, their cheating diplomacy, their ancient rancours, their millions of paupered subjects, condemned to a life of subordination.
From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.
These women! how many a rich man have they not paupered, how many a powerful man have they not prostrated and how many a superior man have they not enslaved!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Ah, but all the while I may not show nor teach Save through my paupered speech!
From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose
