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

To prove the poorness of the quality of flour allowed by Boards of Guardians I obtained some of this flour and I also bought some of the best flour sold on the market.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

His whole case is full of anomalies, however, and these volumes illustrate it even by the light they throw on a certain poorness of range in most of his correspondents.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry