Poor enough to need help from others.
1Are some of the natural resources of this dilapidated and poverty-stricken country.
2The air was rent with the cries of orphans and poverty-stricken widows.
3She offered to pay her share, since they were both poverty-stricken teachers.
4The whole of this poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned.
5In spite of her poverty-stricken appearance, Mrs. Sowler was not absolutely destitute.
6He filled his pipe as the poverty-stricken homestead passed out of sight.
7A theory left to such support, must be poverty-stricken in argument indeed.
8I am a poverty-stricken girl, going out to governess at the Cape.
9The rich forests shrink slowly into thin tracts of scrubby, poverty-stricken vegetation.
10You don't want to be a child of someone who is poverty-stricken.
11She must either be poverty-stricken or have an income provided for her.
12Free meals or cent meals for poverty-stricken school children are not Socialism.
13Everyone remembers abject, poverty-stricken and war-ravaged Vienna in his The Third Man.
14To-day's portion of my journalizing epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.
15To-day's portion of my journalising epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.
16What interest attracted him to this poverty-stricken house, he who was rich?