impecunious
Example Sentences
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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
A volume containing several hundred of Tourgéneff's letters was published last winter in St. Petersburg by the "Society for Assisting Impecunious Authors and Scholars."
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various
"Impecunious?" the lawyer murmured, with his eyes fixed upon his client.
From The Wicked Marquis by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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
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