What's the difference between moneyless and penniless?
Moneyless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yvonne Roberts’s baby boomer view: ‘The perils of a moneyless old age have been brought forward’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer Miranda Sawyer says she hasn’t written a self-help manual, but it’s an often wise and reflective book that drops more famous names than currants in a fruitcake.
(2) The perils anticipated as part of a moneyless old age have come forward several decades.
(3) Those who do want to get out lament the lack of financial and emotional support available to them, and equate leaving sex work to tumbling into a bottomless, moneyless rabbit hole.
(4) We want it to have the same energy as somewhere like Camden – I hope people will come on boat tours to see the work.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Off the wall … the mural by Mark Lyken and Teo Moneyless is on the wall in front of an old sweet factory, where local artists used to paint The four new works, which occupy prominent stretches of wall along both sides of the water, are by artists invited from Brazil and Sweden, Italy, Scotland and the Netherlands.
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.