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Meanings of penniless in inglés
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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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 penniless in inglés
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.
6
But he was penniless; and Frederick was never liberal of his money.
7
I said the father was a penniless pauper; he died lingeringly bedridden.
8
I had started the term penniless, and been scraping by ever since.
9
The sudden death of her father had left her penniless and alone.
10
Disarmed and penniless, he could proceed no further in that lawless region.
11
Mademoiselle d'Arlange is very pretty, and very attractive; but she is penniless.
12
He was an 18year-old English Protestant, penniless but hardworking, ambitious and shrewd.
13
The woman had come to this country as a motherless, penniless refugee.
14
Even if you wanted me, I wouldn't have you now you're penniless.
15
He was penniless, just as he had been when he'd started out.
16
It would have thrown me, whom she loved, penniless on the world.
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Penniless through the time
Penniless across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common