poorness
Example Sentences
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But my poorness pales in comparison to Tupac’s poverty and not knowing where your next meal is going to come from throughout your adolescence.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?'
From Time Magazine Archive
And, like everything else we did about that time, it was done to make money for Miss Sandal, whose poorness kept on, making our kind hearts ache.
From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
And because there was that element of greatness in her, which was also in her father, she thought less of the "worthwhileness" of doing than of the poorness of not doing.
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude
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