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flat broke
adjective as in bad off
adjective as in broke
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adjective as in destitute
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adjective as in impoverished
adjective as in indigent
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adjective as in necessitous
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- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind the eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- needy
- on one's uppers
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
adjective as in penniless
adjective as in poor
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Example Sentences
The woman making the request, Suerkis Polanco, explained that her family was flat broke and facing eviction from their “chete” in early January.
When he was first elected in 1979, he was flat broke.
“That’s weird”—I paused to lick my finger—“because she was whining all last week about being flat broke. Girls, go figure.”
Although Haupt was a dapper dresser, he was a big spender and flat broke.
He almost quit the business when, flat broke and frustrated that the city’s North Side clubs were white and not booking jazz and the South Side venues weren’t paying decent wages, he nearly sold his vibraphone and got a regular job.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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