All 4 Uses of
bankrupt
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight.†
Chpt 3
- He told me once, with an air of pride, that his five bankruptcies were entirely due to 'The Bard,' as he insisted on calling him.†
Chpt 4 *
- Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.†
Chpt 4
- At least he declared he did, and insisted on shaking him by the hand, and assuring him that he was proud to meet a man who had discovered a real genius and gone bankrupt over a poet.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(bankrupt as in: company went bankrupt) legally declared to be unable to pay money that is owed
or (informally): the state of having little or no money