impecunious
IPA: ɪmpɛkjˈuniʌs
adjective
- Lacking money.
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Examples of "impecunious" in Sentences
- Compassion grew for the impecunious.
- I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party.
- From the start, the railway was in an impecunious position.
- Surveyors are adding to the problem for impecunious buyers.
- There, Gebhard solicited the impecunious William for troops and money.
- The term is generally a colloquialism to describe an impecunious defendant.
- In fact, the Board of Trade had been extremely critical of the impecunious line.
- At the time the story goes he was an impecunious writer suffering from writer's block.
- When you are young and impecunious and just out of college, these things are important.
- The distributor, impecunious but hard working, couldn't pay much in the way of an advance.
- In a famously impecunious trade like the journalism of the 1960s, nobody much noticed and nobody much cared.
- Is it true that impecunious Lord Heverton is wooing a wealthy widow from Brighton with nary a title to her name?
- He said his father, whom he once described as an impecunious civil servant, urged him to pursue a more secure career.
- One way is that, as the "food revolution" meets an increasingly impecunious American public, chain restaurants are thriving.
- The poor man's succession for many RIAs is to sell shares over an extended period of time to the bunch of young, impecunious turks.
- I grant you that it is possible that future voters might in principle decide to vote for government bankruptcy and to allow the old and impecunious to starve.
- The "impecunious" deserter fared more hardly; and would, usually, be forced by hunger and thirst to emerge from his hiding place, while the steamer was on the outward voyage.
- It was a weird, improbable metamorphosis for the plump, gypsy-like woman with long batik dresses and dyed-black hair Jane had last seen arguing with impecunious guests on Kuta beach.
- The minister who hardens his heart to a call, and waits for a certain congregation to offer him say five hundred a year more, often finds himself scabbed upon by another and more impecunious minister; and the next time it is his turn to scab while a brother minister is hardening his heart to a call.