impecuniousness
Example Sentences
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This was a period defined by impecuniousness; in his 20s he shared a tatty Lower East Side apartment with rodents.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2015
They offended the fastidious aristocrats with whom he associated, and combined with his impecuniousness to make him seem unsuitable for a great place.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
There were young men, of varying degrees of attractiveness, station, and impecuniousness, who wanted to marry her.
From Thirty by Howard Vincent O'Brien
She liked him the better for a rugged independence, which in the days of his impecuniousness her brother Fillmore had never dreamed of exhibiting.
From The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
There was reason for believing that David's stolid silence regarding his own concerns concealed a general impecuniousness quite as pronounced as that of the artist friends whose cause he pleaded.
From War-time Silhouettes by Stephen Hudson
