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stone broke
phrase as in broke
Strong matches
phrase as in necessitous
Weak matches
- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind the eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- flat broke
- 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
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
phrase as in poor
Strongest matches
phrase as in poverty-stricken
phrase as in strapped
Strongest match
Example Sentences
But the heroes of “The Beaux’ Stratagem” – two well-mannered but stone-broke gentlemen in search of marriageable heiresses – are far more respectful of the opposite sex than the love-‘em-and-leave-‘em 007 usually is.
But here I am, desperately hard up—stone-broke, in fact.
Being stone-broke when you go on board doesn't matter if you ship forward; but aft, to start with bare pockets may get you a bad name.
I know it was a liberty—I made it out you were no business man, only a stone-broke painter; that half the time you didn’t know anything, anyway, particularly money and accounts.
"And you will always be hearing racing 'shop,' and how much somebody won, nobody ever talks about their losses until they are stone-broke."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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