impecunious

Related to impecunious: impecuniosity

impecunious

adjective bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, broke, cleaned out, destitute, distressed, embarrassed, flat, flat broke, hard up, impoverished, in need, in straittned circumstances, in the red, in want, indigent, insolvent, necessitous, needy, not well off, out of money, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poor, poorly off, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, strapped, unable to make ends meet, unmoneyed, without funds, without money

See also: bankrupt, destitute, insolvent, poor

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She was born in 1741 of genteel but impecunious Welsh stock.

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So the impecunious monarch had the whole order rounded up and burnt at the stake as heretics.

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Eccentric in a rather grand English manner, the Durrells spread joy and mayhem from various corners of the empire, took in the impecunious despite the fact they despised them, attempted to keep up appearances in a life run amok, and managed to care for each other very much while calling each other mad.

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For engineers at SSTL it will be business as usual with no immediate differences other than exchanging the impecunious parent of the university for a slightly wealthier one in terms of EADS?

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The impecunious Bianci family is the focus of the first piece, titled "The Welfare Lady.

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Emerging impecunious from the office, I heard the vicar making a brave stab at leading the congregation in a rendition of Abide With Me.

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Seduced and carried off from her patrician parents' household in 1563 by an impecunious Florentine aristocrat, Bianca had become mistress to Francesco by 1567.