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Meanings of penniless in English

Not having enough money to pay for necessities.

        Related terms

        Having no money anymore; having lost all his money.

              Having no money.

                    Usage of penniless in English
                    1
                    Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
                    The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
                    2
                    My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
                    The Guardian
                    3
                    Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
                    Practical Magic
                    4
                    And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
                    Reuters
                    5
                    He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
                    Frontier courtship
                    6
                    But he was penniless; and Frederick was never liberal of his money.
                    The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
                    7
                    I said the father was a penniless pauper; he died lingeringly bedridden.
                    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 08
                    8
                    I had started the term penniless, and been scraping by ever since.
                    The Name of the Wind
                    9
                    The sudden death of her father had left her penniless and alone.
                    Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3
                    10
                    Disarmed and penniless, he could proceed no further in that lawless region.
                    The Valley of the Kings
                    11
                    Mademoiselle d'Arlange is very pretty, and very attractive; but she is penniless.
                    The Lerouge Case
                    12
                    He was an 18year-old English Protestant, penniless but hardworking, ambitious and shrewd.
                    The Irish Times
                    13
                    The woman had come to this country as a motherless, penniless refugee.
                    Roast mortem
                    14
                    Even if you wanted me, I wouldn't have you now you're penniless.
                    In for a penny
                    15
                    He was penniless, just as he had been when he'd started out.
                    Agent 6
                    16
                    It would have thrown me, whom she loved, penniless on the world.
                    The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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                    Penniless across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common