impecunious

• Although it does strive as far as possible to lower the barriers which lack of means so often places in the path of talent, yet it is not intended primarily for the impecunious. —  Edward MacDowell
• Randolph was known to be impecunious, but his personal honor had never been suspected. —  George Washington
• The use of an open door is hardly trespass under the law of any land; and dawn is an excellent time for the impecunious who take thought of the lily how it grows in order to outdo Solomon. —  Guns of the Gods
• Dig: The L.A. City Council is set to boot an egregiously entrenched enclave of impecunious, impoverished, impetuously machismo mangled Mexican-A.ericans from their sharecropper shingle shacks in that shady, smog-shrouded Shangri-La Chavez Ravine!!! —  White Jazz
• That the land of his adoption should have dubbed him Mr. Jussuks--in stolid unconsciousness, too, of the solecism--was an outrage of a totally different order--an outrage only to be condoned on the score that an impenetrable insular gaucherie_, and not a malicious impertinence, was responsible for it Mr. Jussuks had, however, outlived his sense of the injurious appellation; had outlived much prejudice, the wear of poverty, his memory of many things, and, very early, his scorn of the plebeian processes that to the impecunious are a condition of living at all. —  At a Winter's Fire

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