Penniless
['penɪlɪs]
Definition
(a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Moneyless, destitute, poor, necessitous, needy, indigent, distressed, pinched, reduced, short of money, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket, in need, in want.
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Examples
- The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Count Fosco, though not a rich man, was not a penniless adventurer either. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Barely, said Gurth, though the sum demanded was more reasonable than he expected, and it will leave my master nigh penniless. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You can't help your pedigree, and I quite agree with you that I would have married Mr. Joe Sedley; for could a poor penniless girl do better? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I just rejoiced that good luck had come her way, and that she had not thrown herself away on a penniless sailor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Poor little penniless, I have got a little interest--and who knows, perhaps the mouse may be able to aid the lion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We should be just as penniless elsewhere as we are here, said Lydgate still more angrily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Suppose he came back and claimed it, I would once more be penniless. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You, penniless! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was a penniless man, some accounts say he was a bankrupt, and his only way of securing a ship was to get someone to entrust him with a command. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am poor, I am penniless--should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Matters seemed tending worse and worse with him, and the situation of the Howe family in London, almost penniless, grew daily more and more precarious. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He pawned his patent and his last machine, and procured money to return to New York, where he arrived penniless in 1849. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Does it not strike you, Mr. Yorke, that for a mere penniless adventurer to aspire to a rich woman's hand is presumptuous--contemptible? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am worse than penniless, said he. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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