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poorness

NOUN
  1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
  2. the quality of being meager
    an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes
  3. the quality of being poorly made or maintained
    she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography
  4. less than adequate
    the relative poorness of New England farmland

How To Use poorness In A Sentence

  • When the young Australian - whose swing is widely viewed as a duplicate of the one Harmon supposedly built for Woods - missed the putting surface by all of 40 yards to the right, the poorness of his effort was greeted by total silence.
  • A Poet may, I find, easily fall into Poorness of Thought by aiming too much at the Probability and neglecting the Admirable; whereby he loses that agreeableness which is Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
  • But there is a meanness and poorness in modern prudence, not only to the damage of civil government, but of religion itself; for to make a man in matter of religion, which admits not of sensible demonstration (jurare in verba magistri), engage to believe no otherwise than is believed by my lord bishop, or Goodman Presbyter is a pedantism that has made the sword to be a rod in the hands of schoolmasters; by which means, whereas the Christian religion is the furthest of any from countenancing war, there never was a war of religion but since The Commonwealth of Oceana
  • If only this Haunted Mansion suffered from the same kind of vague, ghostly poorness, it might fly.
  • What's a bit interesting about this policy change, this policy poorness in my view, introduced in 1997 is that it's completely unnecessary.
  • Remembered as a benchmark of poorness, a level they must not let themselves sink to again.
  • the relative poorness of New England farmland
  • Remove, as our helper, all poorness of thought; drive far all sorrow, all evil intention.
  • Though he couldn't complain, even if he was upset by the poorness of the home he currently occupied, because if nothing else he needed a place to stay.
  • she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography
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