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dirt poor

adjective as in bad off

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adjective as in broke

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adjective as in destitute

adjective as in impecunious

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adjective as in needy

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adjective as in penniless

adjective as in poor

adjective as in poverty-stricken

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adjective as in strapped

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impoverished

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“We were dirt poor so I couldn’t afford to go to the movies often,” he told the AP in 1998.

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“We were dirt poor so I couldn’t afford to go to the movies too often, but I went whenever I could and focused in on movies as if they were more important than anything in life.”

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“We were dirt poor so I couldn’t afford to go to the movies often,” he told the AP in 1998.

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He had grown up dirt poor in what is now South Korea, then occupied by Japan.

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"Patients who were put in there were dirt poor," said Clare Blackmore, one of the volunteers.

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