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down-and-out
Example Sentences
It is Ma who refuses to abandon the down-and-out Wilson family even though their company may slow the journey west.
The Oscars also like down-and-out characters and misunderstood geniuses, both of which tend to beget low-talkers.
But their impact on their down-and-out political parties may turn out to be nearly identical.
Of course Garrison had been to the dogs during the past year—what down-and-out jockey has not gone there?
Fane spoke up languidly: "It rather looks as though we were the down-and-out delegation at present; doesn't it, Orchil?"
I went on down the street feeling almost like a man again and not a down-and-out ex-convict.
Had about as much sympathy for a down-and-out, Steele did, as you'd find milk in a turnip.
A man's a millionaire to-day and a member of the down-and-out club to-morrow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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