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The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.

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      The quality of being meager.

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          Examples for "poverty"
          Examples for "poverty"
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          Kosovo's appalling environmental problems are part of a deeper problem: chronic poverty.
          The Guardian
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          Food poverty is a huge problem in Ireland and throughout the EU.
          The Irish Times
          3
          The company said it wanted to tackle period poverty in New Zealand.
          Radio NZ
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          We want greater recognition of the depth of the food poverty problem.
          The Guardian
          5
          They talk a good game about prosperity, but deliver crime and poverty.
          Jamaica Observer
          1
          Political, economic and cultural impoverishment makes the emblem all the more precious.
          The Irish Times
          2
          The impoverishment of China began with the flow abroad of her metallic currency.
          A History of China
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          Another sign of impoverishment is the decrease in the quantity of live stock.
          Russia
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          The impoverishment of the South will not aid in calming its intestine quarrels.
          The Uprising of a Great People / The United States in 1861. to W...
          5
          Despite its history of impoverishment, it conceives itself as an important regional player.
          The Guardian
          Uso de poorness en inglés
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          The poorness of his play was accentuated by the brilliance of Joe's.
          Psmith in the City
          2
          I never could see no 'poorness of spirit,' come to git at 'em.
          In Exile, and Other Stories
          3
          The poorness of the subject and the richness of the price shocked her profoundly.
          Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
          4
          I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces.
          Essays — Second Series
          5
          He apologised first for the poorness of the entertainment, saying that he had done his best.
          The King's Achievement
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          But dullness and poorness are now their characteristics.
          Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
          7
          But still, for your father's sake, though I am ashamed of the poorness of the gift-
          The Last of the Barons — Volume 01
          8
          The ghetto of my childhood, for all its poorness, had the air of a street carnival.
          The Lost Continent
          9
          This then was their pretended poorness of living!
          Castle Richmond
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          Durable as a rule, they are in general characterized by a fatal chalkiness, and poorness of hue.
          Field's Chromatography / or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as ...
          11
          The poorness of their quality as tools with which to accomplish swift results developed the following day.
          As It Was in the Beginning
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          On the poorness of our palæontological collections.
          On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection / Or, the...
          13
          He remembered the poorness of her raiment, the meekness of her language, the small range of her ideas.
          An Eye for an Eye
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          Filth, poorness of living, and the want of linen, made this horrible disease formerly very common in Scotland.
          Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) / Consisting ...
          15
          This poorness of the vegetation is owing to the quantity of saline matter with which the soil is impregnated.
          The Voyage of the Beagle
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          The scurfy skin disease so common among savages has a close connexion with the poorness and irregularity of their living.
          The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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          Translations for poorness
          Poorness a través del tiempo