Definitions
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- adjective Having little or no
wealth ,poor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We were friends because we were both outsiders: I, provincial, casteless, wealthless; he a Muslim.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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We were friends because we were both outsiders: I, provincial, casteless, wealthless; he a Muslim.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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We were friends because we were both outsiders: I, provincial, casteless, wealthless; he a Muslim.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Others had more exotic rags and a more foreign look: jaunty street-thieves of Dinander, or wealthless travelers run afoul of municipal authority.
Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988
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Others had more exotic rags and a more foreign look: jaunty street-thieves of Dinander, or wealthless travelers run afoul of municipal authority.
Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988
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In any foreign-aid situation, because one party (wealthy but locally powerless) is giving and another (locally powerful but wealthless) is receiving, there will be a gamut of errors ranging from misunderstanding to gross misrule.
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Presently in the Detroit Public School system there is really no alternative on how to make a real and sustainable investment in its student population, it's under-served, and the wealthless in Detroit.
Akindele Unleashed 2009
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