pauper
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However, this nomad only looked like a pauper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
A Nigerian mum might say: 'Do you want to live your life as a pauper forever?'
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
He kept a stash of money sewed into his ragged coat and conveniently escaped for a hot bath and a good meal while pretending to pass as a pauper.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024
For most of human history, identity was ascribed at birth: pauper, peasant, preacher, princess.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
“God sees fit to let something happen to a Malaga pauper, and Phippsburg pays the bill. It’s a scandal.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The sport of kings to some, the sport of paupers for most.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
"The RFU keep trumpeting community rugby as the lifeblood of the game, while at the same time seemingly treating them like paupers."
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
The Senate is in no great shape either, following a controversial decision to let senators dress like common paupers and Dickensian street urchins.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2023
Monica, Danny and James are toiling in the shadow of the entertainment industry — relative paupers who can’t help wondering if they’ll ever be invited to the nearby banquet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
The city almshouse on Spruce Street was jammed with over three hundred paupers, while private institutions, such as the Friends’ Alms House, were also filled to capacity.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing pauper
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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