impecunious
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And how many in the author’s crowd have done their part to restore civilization by moving into co-housing units, spaces typically reserved for impecunious 20-somethings?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Fans and players relatively unscathed, the pyramid structure affirmed, the current season’s integrity retained, clubs in trouble helped and the 14’s own playing staff not raided by clubs so impecunious they need their own goldmine.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2021
His grandfather was a servant, and his father, John Dickens, was an impecunious minor civil servant ultimately sent to the notorious debtors’ prison, Marshalsea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
He wrote in a Nobel biography that he grew up in an environment of “secure but impecunious Midwestern academics.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2020
And the greatest hue and cry came from Rob Hall, who was leading a small, impecunious New Zealand team.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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