(a.) Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
Example Sentences:
(1) But The Observer also lost many conservative readers and advertisers, and ended up with more impecunious readers who were less attractive to advertisers.
(2) The financial services industry was throwing money at any impecunious sad-sack strong enough to push through its doors.
(3) Some have even sought to mute others: earlier this month, impecunious Greece vetoed a European Union condemnation of China’s human rights record at the United Nations (a matter of principle, an official straight-facedly insisted).
(4) He was a successful student and lived an impecunious bohemian life in Chelsea, sharing houses with other painters and with Dylan Thomas, who never had a room of his own, just slept on the floor using his trousers as a pillow.
(5) When a dating show contestant rebuffed an impecunious suitor with the words, "I would rather cry in the back of a BMW than laugh on the back of a bicycle", they instantly became part of popular lore.
(6) At the age of 38, by now a lecturer at Surrey University, he came to the conclusion that the life of an impecunious British academic wasn't for him.
(7) And at some point the hotel chains might wake up from their snoozeathon and point out how much revenue cities stand to lose if they are not around to pay their taxes and business rates, though the evidence suggests that Airbnb creates its own market and caters for demographics traditionally not well catered for by hotels – the impecunious, families, people who like to cook an egg.
(8) Although they will often be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the charity, the indemnity will be worthless if the charity is impecunious.
(9) Many of the difficulties are financial and situational, including small departments and divisions, few pediatric research mentors, impecunious pediatric hospitals and services, ethical constraints on pediatric research and competing responsibilities.
(10) The impecunious curate's family were crowded into a little terrace house on Chichester's North Walls, and it seems likely that incestuous relations with at least one of Eric's sisters started here.
(11) Guinness had an impecunious childhood, with a modest boarding-school education at Pembroke Lodge, in Southborne, and Roborough, in Eastbourne.
(12) A t the Mansion House speech in the City on Wednesday night, George Osborne confirmed his decision to adopt a Mr Micawber approach to the public finances – that balancing income and expenditure is the key to happiness – and enshrine in law the new government’s determination to run permanent budget surpluses Living within your income was the maxim of the impecunious but irrepressible Micawber, of Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield and is now the aim of the chancellor, too.
(13) On costs, the report calls on the government to look at "measures to reduce costs and to speed up libel litigation will help address the mismatch in resources between wealthy corporations and impecunious defendants."
Penniless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Katie has her benefits frozen, leaving her penniless, while Daniel, a man whose doctor says he is too ill to work, has to spend 35 hours a week applying for jobs he can’t take, on the orders of the jobcentre “work coach”.
(2) He’s living with his sister in the capital, Tegucigalpa, jobless and penniless, grieving the loss of his kids.
(3) The Mrs Brawne role is quiet, but has the visceral quality that marks Fox's best work; she is a widow, trying to negotiate her daughter's passion for the penniless Keats and the pressing financial need for her to marry well.
(4) Her case for judicial review claims that the actions of Balls, Ofsted and Haringey were unfair and in breach of natural justice, and have left her penniless and practically unemployable.
(5) Before this we’d won nothing for years.” The government’s volte-face means that tens of thousands of the very poorest households on the brink of catastrophe – victims of domestic violence or flooding, homelessness, or those made penniless by sudden financial crises – will in theory still be able to turn to the state, rather than the loan shark, for “last resort” help.
(6) This has left some claimants penniless, stressed, forced to borrow cash to pay rent or utility bills and struggling to buy food.
(7) Scot Young, 51, has told judges he is penniless and bankrupt, a victim of financial meltdown and hopelessly insolvent.
(8) Ted Cruz, also the son of a Cuban immigrant, said his father “came to Austin penniless, seeking freedom.
(9) By imposing rigid economic dogma on its borrowers, the IMF has imposed austerity and de-development on hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people: prising open food markets of the world's poorest countries to put penniless peasants in direct competition with subsidised producers of wheat, rice, cotton, sugar, beef, butter and other commodities in the USA and the EU, undermining fragile rural economies and livelihoods.
(10) I lost my friends, my business, my home and I am penniless.
(11) Shoesmith is claiming that the actions of Balls, Ofsted and Haringey council were "unfair" and in breach of natural justice, and have left her penniless and practically unemployable.
(12) Laura aka SheIsMe As a penniless teenager in 1990s Belfast, the non-appearance of my period was a rite of passage I'd have happily skipped.
(13) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.
(14) For most of her 20s, she worked on McLibel - an epic, low-budget documentary about McDonald's hamfisted attempt to sue two penniless activists who defended themselves in the high court in the longest civil case in English history.
(15) Veronica laid low for a while until, penniless and with no education, she returned to prostitution, though at least she was keeping her earnings.
(16) The odds against being on a plane with two bombs on it are 50bn to one.” Emma Fisher Bath • Rodney Mace has learned that it’s the penniless immigrants ruining our living standards ( Letters , 12 August)?
(17) Now Philip Hammond tells us it’s all those penniless immigrants fleeing oppression and poverty.
(18) Young, 51, has told judges he is penniless and bankrupt, a victim of financial meltdown whose debts add up to £28m.
(19) Sentencing him to prison, the judge said: "The husband says he is penniless and bankrupt.
(20) Mooney had just agreed to sell the property for £46,000 but now fears he will be left homeless and penniless if insurers refuse to pay up.