(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(3) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(4) The British Red Cross charity said such individuals should be allowed temporary leave to remain and work if they meet Home Office requirements , sparing people from years living in penury.
(5) That’s because, just as the earlier bailouts went to the banks not the country , and troika-imposed austerity has brought penury and a debt explosion, these demands are really about power, not money.
(6) And then, finally, laid low by strokes, penury, depression and ill health, Biggs back in Britain.
(7) In Cyprus , now poised to become one of the biggest experiments in global financial history, people know that penury is just around the corner.
(8) A recession may actually appear to rescue poor people from penury, simply by dragging down the benchmark of typical pay.
(9) Our landlord could double the rent tomorrow, one of us could be summoned to work in Stockholm or Scotland or Stockport, or we might find ourselves in financial penury.
(10) There are relatively few signs of the aching poverty that afflicts other parts of Latin America, though a developing world debt crisis drove many to penury at the beginning of this century.
(11) They bid for the World Cup knowing how workers are treated in their country – workers are dying, suffering injury, mental tortureand penury while waiting for the "catalyst" to change their miserable reality.
(12) "These policies will bring penury to Greeks for generations to come.
(13) This is the Tories' brave new world, "compassionate" in giving, "conservative" in lowering taxes, a system that failed miserably in the past and will surely condemn millions to penury in the future.
(14) The Rev Dr John Jegasothy, a former Tamil refugee and now an Australian citizen, says life on a bridging visa is enforced penury and a poverty made worse because of its interminable nature.
(15) There is charity, and sometimes state and local relief, but many a chronic health condition goes untreated, and penury abounds .
(16) The relations between landlord and tenant were circumscribed by the indebtedness of the former and the penury of the latter.
(17) At the age of 40 he began to write seriously, living in near-penury for years while sustaining an eccentric lifestyle, wearing silver spectacles and glycerine gloves (in bed), while writing with a "magic" glass egg on his desk, and chain-smoking like a devil.
(18) They would say that Miliband is taking the party back to the left and the bad old days of inefficiency, trade union power and frequent strikes, that he doesn't like or understand business, and that Britain would slide from prosperity to penury.
(19) It was also on the road to penury, thanks to Mutharika’s increasingly eccentric economic policies and his alienation of the foreign donors upon which Malawi relies .
(20) Its single currency has brought penury to half a continent.
Poverty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
(5) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(6) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
(7) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
(8) After adjusting for health status, persons below poverty were shown to have significantly fewer physician contacts than persons above poverty.
(9) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(10) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(11) Mother's oligophrenia, poverty, and familial unbalance were underlying causes.
(12) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(13) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(14) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(15) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
(16) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
(17) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
(18) Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged."
(19) This is supposed to happen without pushing up energy bills excessively or extending fuel poverty.
(20) The cycle of events which leads to an impairment of the immune response in the malnourished child includes poverty, food deprivation and frequent infections.