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Meanings of impecunious in English
Synonyms
Examples for "skint"
Examples for "skint"
1
It's all very well for you to say that, but I'm skint.
2
Welcome to the world of the young, skint and self-employed.
3
Hostels are no longer just grotty dives for skint backpackers.
4
We're all so busy, and tired, not to mention skint.
5
I was skint, so I had a go at it.
1
At the end of eight or nine days I found myself moneyless.
2
Accordingly, they came in great numbers, so that he left himself moneyless.
3
If you could leave me moneyless, papa, it would make no difference.
4
Bill found himself the possessor of that most ironical thing, a moneyless title.
5
Still, he was not to look upon himself as either friendless or moneyless.
1
Yes, Lesbia loved this fortuneless knight; but she loved herself and her prospects of promotion still better.
2
What matter that he was fortuneless, a nobody, with but the poorest chances of success in the world?
3
She had spent her money, nearly all of it, and he couldn't afford to marry a fortuneless girl.
4
Perhaps in her heart of hearts she rejoiced at getting Mary engaged, even to so humble a suitor as fortuneless John Hammond.
Usage of impecunious in English
1
No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
2
The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
3
Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
4
It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
5
Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
6
The plot had been laid long since, in the old impecunious hardworking days.
7
You never belonged to the people: you belonged to the impecunious.
8
The impecunious poet took it from the proprietress, paling, and read:
9
His entrance had snapped the tension between his impecunious step-nephew and the painter.
10
And I should enrich the impecunious young son, or reform the tipsy soldier.
11
I am one, the Grand Gulf and Northern, the impecunious one.
12
Here formerly lived the impecunious father of John Jacob Astor and his brother.
13
Allen was the impecunious son of the Squire's sister who had married badly.
14
He spoke very much as her impecunious father might have spoken.
15
Hence results a class of impecunious gentlemen of leisure, incidentally referred to already.
16
Now how and where did that impecunious, rough-neck painter fit into-
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Impecunious across language varieties
United Kingdom
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