impecunious
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Impecunious governments trying to impose the rule of law find it subverted into the rule of lawyers and trial by media.
From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012
Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company of scholars with little money but much bookish fervor, and last week that was just what began to assemble there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impecunious, mercenary widow, determined to settle her daughters in life without any regard to eugenic principles.
From Bluebeard; a musical fantasy by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
In the early telegraph days I remember going with him to see Mackay in 'The Impecunious Country Editor.'
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
A talk on "The Impecunious Draughtsman Abroad" was given by Mr. Myron H. Hunt, and Mr. George R. Dean has given a lantern-slide exhibition, illustrating the Château de Blois.
From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 11, November, 1895 The Country Houses of Normandy by Various
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