impecunious

Example Sentences

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The first is the remarkable development of the anxious, impecunious and socially awkward Tennyson into the most celebrated poet of late 19th-century England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

As a young, eager-to-please novelist, he had transformed his impecunious father into the whimsical and charming Mr. Micawber of “Copperfield”; after his father’s death came a more selfish and unforgiving version in “Little Dorrit.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020

And the tales still told of talented but impecunious riders scrapping their way to the Classic on the back of some gifted nag discovered in a barnyard seem more than ever like myth.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2019

She had no understanding of her husband’s work and, having been raised among the minor rural gentry, she despised his impecunious profession.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan