A state of extreme poverty or destitution.
Lack of the means of subsistence.
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Examples for "poverty "
1 Kosovo's appalling environmental problems are part of a deeper problem: chronic poverty .
2 Food poverty is a huge problem in Ireland and throughout the EU.
3 The company said it wanted to tackle period poverty in New Zealand.
4 We want greater recognition of the depth of the food poverty problem.
5 They talk a good game about prosperity, but deliver crime and poverty .
1 His happiness was evidently incomplete in the privation of a similar pair.
2 One great privation in this winter travelling is the want of water.
3 It was meant to be boom-time after decades of war and privation .
4 Another is reared in poverty and has to toil and suffer privation .
5 Nor had the privation of the long journey dimmed in my mind.
1 It puts every ordinary working family at risk of falling into destitution .
2 This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
3 There are millions of people living in destitution crying out for help.
4 The cause of the destitution of the proletariat are then set forth.
5 Yet it was still in a pitiable state of weakness and destitution .
1 I am lost in indigence ; do confer on me Thy greatest favor.
2 Families who had lived in opulence found themselves suddenly reduced to indigence .
3 Our relations; who enjoyed all our property, had reduced us to indigence .
4 The greatest misfortune has befallen Egypt: its rulers are threatened with indigence .
5 The conditions referred to are affluence and indigence , as explained by Nilakantha.
6 Then glancing around the room, he saw everywhere age, decay, and indigence .
7 And especially what indigence will there be of that which is subordinate?
8 Remote from her friends; in a hovel; the abode of indigence and misery.
9 Perhaps indigence exercises a peculiar and equal effect upon the handwriting.
10 The house exhibited the most offensive appearance of filth and indigence .
11 A life of escapes and indigence could supply poetry with no splendid images.
12 Wealth formation and profit seeking are motivated by indigence , both absolute and relative.
13 His whole property was confiscated, and he was reduced to indigence and contempt.
14 You are better at home, under no compulsion to act dishonorably from indigence .
15 Erik Satie lived the entire later half of his life in extreme indigence .
16 Man's history is not one of affluence, but one of indigence .
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