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penury

noun as in poverty

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“Let's tell ourselves the truth. Tinubu's new Airbus presidential aircraft purchase for N150 billion at a time of penury, hunger, and want shows how wicked, selfish, self-indulgent, and insensitive to the plight of the average Nigerian he really is.”

From BBC

As Bronner writes in Bloomberg, Israel’s “growing number of technocrats, business leaders, and academics”—who have transformed the country into one of the most prosperous and technically advanced in the world—see the war in Gaza “as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.”

From Slate

He faced agony abroad, then penury in his adopted home.

"Independence, I think, means penury for Wales, not success."

From BBC

If you're willing to force poor elderly people into even worse penury than they already are, you are their kind of gal.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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