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not having enough money to pay for a comfortable life- Though born into an impecunious family, she is a millionaire today.
- After receiving the grant, the formerly impecunious researchers found themselves awash in funding.
- She was, I knew, the fifth daughter of an impecunious Irish peer, and the Duke of Southshire was one of the best matches in England.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- Every devoted artist, however impecunious, I felt, deserved at least this.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- You haven't the thirsty look of the impecunious.Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
- It was a heady experience for a man who had lived an impecunious existence for the past thirty years.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Mr. Hubbard was a florid, red-whiskered little man, whose admiration for art was considerably tempered by the inveterate impecuniosity of most of the artists who dealt with him.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- People called Maude lived there; impecunious, shifty, disreputable people; who could not pay their bills; and thus kept their gate locked and the big dog behind it to frighten duns.Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
- As it was precisely of that love that poor Winsett was starving to death, Archer looked with a sort of vicarious envy at this eager impecunious young man who had fared so richly in his poverty.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- Loose women, treating him as a friend, told him the troubles, difficulties, and successes of their lives; and card-sharpers, respecting his impecuniosity, stood him dinners and lent him five-pound notes.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- For "advice" read "cash," he said to himself; and the fact that Gilbert Osmond had landed his highest prizes during his impecunious season confirmed his most cherished doctrine—the doctrine that a collector may freely be poor if he be only patient.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- For "advice" read "cash," he said to himself; and the fact that Gilbert Osmond had landed his highest prizes during his impecunious season confirmed his most cherished doctrine—the doctrine that a collector may freely be poor if he be only patient.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Some of the other teams on the mountain that year, failing to understand that Everest was no longer merely a mountain but a 32 commodity as well, were incensed And the greatest hue and cry came from Rob Hall, who was leading a small, impecunious New Zealand team.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- Our records also show that you are currently unemployed and have therefore been classified as impecunious.Ernest Cline -- Ready Player One
- These wards were filled with derelicts: old women with dementia, impecunious veterans down on their luck, noseless men with tertiary syphilis and the like.Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
- But it wallowed like a pig, and the second-class deck overlooked the first-class one, so you couldn't walk about there without a railing-full of impecunious gawkers checking you over.Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
- Being a levelheaded individual who could give points to not a few in point of shrewd observation he also remarked on his very dilapidated hat and slouchy wearing apparel generally testifying to a chronic impecuniosity.James Joyce -- Ulysses
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