pauper
Example Sentences
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A Nigerian mum might say: 'Do you want to live your life as a pauper forever?'
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
It also helped that Crawford was not exactly a pauper and got only marginally outspent in a race that saw over $107 million in expenditures.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2025
Follow the adage "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
De León noted that when Villaraigosa beat incumbent Hahn in 2005, Hahn was a pauper compared with Caruso.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2022
Deng Yi-yi, no longer dressed like a pauper, was smiling at us.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
