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She had wanted to wear her sister’s elaborate wedding dress, but their pennilessness called for something less formal.

I’d spent an hour moaning over my latte about my state of pennilessness when my friend interrupted to ask whether I planned on entering my book in the new Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript award.

His impulse is to be chivalrous, for chivalry is not regulated by income nor deadened by pennilessness.

The prospect of abject pennilessness filled the damsel's eyes with woe.

She had few relatives, and none of them had any intention of burdening themselves with her pennilessness.

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

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