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Meanings of poorness in English
Spanish
escasez Usage of poorness in English
1
The poorness of his play was accentuated by the brilliance of Joe's.
2
I never could see no 'poorness of spirit,' come to git at 'em.
3
The poorness of the subject and the richness of the price shocked her profoundly.
4
I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces.
5
He apologised first for the poorness of the entertainment, saying that he had done his best.
6
But dullness and poorness are now their characteristics.
7
But still, for your father's sake, though I am ashamed of the poorness of the gift-
8
The ghetto of my childhood, for all its poorness, had the air of a street carnival.
9
This then was their pretended poorness of living!
10
Durable as a rule, they are in general characterized by a fatal chalkiness, and poorness of hue.
11
The poorness of their quality as tools with which to accomplish swift results developed the following day.
12
On the poorness of our palæontological collections.
13
He remembered the poorness of her raiment, the meekness of her language, the small range of her ideas.
14
Filth, poorness of living, and the want of linen, made this horrible disease formerly very common in Scotland.
15
This poorness of the vegetation is owing to the quantity of saline matter with which the soil is impregnated.
16
The scurfy skin disease so common among savages has a close connexion with the poorness and irregularity of their living.
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Translations for poorness
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Catalan
Poorness through the time