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Meanings of impecunious in English

Not having enough money to pay for necessities.

        Related terms

        Having no money.

              Usage of impecunious in English
              1
              No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
              Buttered Side Down: Stories
              2
              The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
              The Leavenworth Case
              3
              Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 / Little J...
              4
              It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
              Something New
              5
              Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
              Millionaire: the philanderer, gambler, and duelist who invented ...
              6
              The plot had been laid long since, in the old impecunious hardworking days.
              An Old Meerschaum / From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume...
              7
              You never belonged to the people: you belonged to the impecunious.
              Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
              8
              The impecunious poet took it from the proprietress, paling, and read:
              A Chair on the Boulevard
              9
              His entrance had snapped the tension between his impecunious step-nephew and the painter.
              White Ashes
              10
              And I should enrich the impecunious young son, or reform the tipsy soldier.
              The Lost Lady of Lone
              11
              I am one, the Grand Gulf and Northern, the impecunious one.
              Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
              12
              Here formerly lived the impecunious father of John Jacob Astor and his brother.
              The Harris-Ingram Experiment
              13
              Allen was the impecunious son of the Squire's sister who had married badly.
              Revenge!
              14
              He spoke very much as her impecunious father might have spoken.
              The Golden Calf
              15
              Hence results a class of impecunious gentlemen of leisure, incidentally referred to already.
              The Theory of the Leisure Class
              16
              Now how and where did that impecunious, rough-neck painter fit into-
              Children of the Whirlwind
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