impecuniosity

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To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hollywood's swashbuckling monument to impecuniosity has been dead for ten years, but Daughter Deirdre Flynn, 24, seems to be upholding the family name.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contrasted with the magnificence of the Habsburg Court, her impecuniosity is a greater hardship than it would be to an ordinary person, especially as she has five children to support.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, the strange and unexpected means by which people have been delivered from their impecuniosity savours strongly of the unreal, of the world of fiction rather than of the world of fact.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.

She tells us many anecdotes of the impecuniosity which afflicted her in the early days of her career.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.