poorness

Example Sentences

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But my poorness pales in comparison to Tupac’s poverty and not knowing where your next meal is going to come from throughout your adolescence.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?'

From Time Magazine Archive

I do say it," said Bella; "for it's a sorrowful sight to see meekness all run to poorness of spirit.

From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Partridge, Bernard

But he soon discovered the poorness of Vandevelde's forms of waves, and raised their meanly divided surfaces into massive surge, effecting rapidly other changes, of which more in another place.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John