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pennilessness
noun as in poverty
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
Example Sentences
And her ambition is fueled by a nearly Depression Era-level of fear of failure and pennilessness.
His impulse is to be chivalrous, for chivalry is not regulated by income nor deadened by pennilessness.
They lived in dread of the pettiest casual expense, for the day of pennilessness was again approaching.
He had only made one similar attempt on the road before, and had been driven to lawless action by unexpected pennilessness.
I therefore confessed my pennilessness to the shopman, and asked if I should be likely to find a mont-de-pit still open.
And she could weigh against that the absolute pennilessness of her baronet-son.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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