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flat broke
adjective as in bad off
adjective as in broke
Strong matches
adjective as in destitute
Strongest matches
adjective as in impoverished
adjective as in indigent
adjective as in necessitous
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- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind the eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- needy
- on one's uppers
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
adjective as in penniless
adjective as in poor
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Example Sentences
Within six months he was flat broke and on the verge of being disbarred.
Hungerford used to pay him, but now that he is flat Broke and can't help no more, he won't give him a cent.
He was broke, flat broke, about the time I was elected and suddenly he had all the money he required.
Yer flat broke, an' need coin, an' I'm takin' at yer own word—thet ye don't care overly much how ye git it.
I let him know you needed work, but I didn't tip my hand you was flat broke.
I'd take it to New York myself, but you see, I am flat broke.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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