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Meanings of skint in English
Synonyms
Examples for "penniless"
Examples for "penniless"
1
Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
2
My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
3
Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
4
And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5
He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
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.
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 skint in English
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.
6
When you are skint and hungry, most things taste incredible.
7
If turkey drumsticks are on skint shelves, hold that bad boy like Fred Flinstone.
8
She teamed it with a pair of slashed, skint-tight pants and a detailed cap.
9
Best saved for those long, skint, winter nights ahead.
10
Times has been tough means me now well skint.
11
If you're Russian and rich, you're bound to get linked to a skint Premiership club.
12
They put all their money on black, it came up red and they are skint.
13
If you're a Premiership club and skint, you're bound to get linked to a rich Russian.
14
Funny how they never get all misty-eyed and nostalgic for the low-profile, skint men they've known.
15
I would portray myself as skint but I know how to live on very little money.
16
Being skint can lead to great clothes.
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