impecunious

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Impecunious governments trying to impose the rule of law find it subverted into the rule of lawyers and trial by media.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company of scholars with little money but much bookish fervor, and last week that was just what began to assemble there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps it ought not to have opened its soft, sweet petals for an owner who was dwelling in the Valley of Impecunious Disgrace.

From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Impecunious ghosts, hard fate of, 406 Impurity, ceremonial, of manslayer, 229 sq.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

Impecunious princes and potentates have been known to replenish their purses in this way, though hitherto usually by private sale rather than market quotations.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various