impecunious

How To Use impecunious In A Sentence

• I grant you that it is possible that future voters might in principle decide to vote for government bankruptcy and to allow the old and impecunious to starve. IRA's to the Rescue?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• He was mainly a designer, and his career - from impecunious family in Glasgow to a large house with servants in Kensington - demonstrated what talent and hard work could do in Victorian Britain.
• Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners. IN LOVE AND WAR
• The family was very poor, an impecunious state somewhat worsened by the fact that while the other lads playing in the street would be called in for their tea at six, he and his younger brother would go into an empty house.
• The neighbour who gave me the tickets was an impecunious artist and I was sitting in the cheap seats, just out of range, even from ricochets.
• Impecunious and improvident - or, as one biographer phrased it more kindly, ‘unprosperous’ were invariably on the list of invocations as well.
• Superb presents can be had here - though not by the impecunious.
• It was a weird, improbable metamorphosis for the plump, gypsy-like woman with long batik dresses and dyed-black hair Jane had last seen arguing with impecunious guests on Kuta beach. A Covert Affair
• He gave impecunious artists credit, not always willingly.
• Occasionally, the owner took pity on us impecunious students and gave us an offcut of something for free. Times, Sunday Times