Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
Having no money anymore; having lost all his money.
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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