necessitous

ADJECTIVE
  1. poor enough to need help from others
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How To Use necessitous In A Sentence

  • The government was subsequently informed by the ship's captain that the Tampa would not enter Australian waters if medical assistance for necessitous cases were provided.
  • The bishop planned to necessitous areas of the city.
  • So it is necessitous to transfer the rural labor reasonably and orderly in order to ensure the full employment of the farmer by every possible means.
  • As the laborers saw it - ‘competition forces all employers to come down to the level of the most grasping, and forces all workmen to accept the rate of pay accepted by the most necessitous.’
  • His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
  • Defenders of protective legislation were therefore forced to abandon their reliance on the argument that women were especially necessitous, and instead argue that the courts misunderstood the true meaning of liberty of contract.
  • The king's undeniable ruthlessness can be seen either as needless brutality, or as necessitous firmness in his utter determination to achieve total victory.
  • Glasgow Education Authority organised holidays for the necessitous children of the city from the 1920s onwards.
  • I want also to see panels of voluntary nurses who can be detailed off to attend to necessitous patients in their own home.
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