necessitous
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Back in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt, in his inaugural address, pointed out that "a necessitous man is not a free man."
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022
“The first lady’s initiative, ‘Let Girls Learn’ is a fantastic one, and it’s a necessitous one, and this film absolutely speaks to that, ” he says.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2016
He raised $300,000 for destitute Belgians, $5,000 for a memorial to Antarctic Explorer Scott, $15,000 "to provide pensions for necessitous grandnieces" of Charles Dickens.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the tired phrases of tribute and condolence, worn nearly meaningless by necessitous convention, were heard in Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed his voluminous correspondence rather resembles the letter-bag of an agency for necessitous persons of social position than the papers of a Prime Minister or Secretary of State.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
