Definitions

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  • adjective Lacking money; poor.

Etymologies

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dollar +‎ -less

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Examples

  • But, through all the spheres it would go forth that the Norrises, deceived by gentlemanly manners and appearances, had, falling from their high estate, ‘received’ a dollarless and unknown man.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • I returned to America, a penniless bum, who worked his way up to being a dollarless bum in just one month.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000

  • Living standards for the average (dollarless) Cuban remain at

    The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • All through greed and lust for power, one of the richest Countries in 1946 almost friendless and dollarless in 1948.

    Survival At Stake, Our Individual Responsibilities 1948

  • Cousin _Theodore_, a guileless and dollarless clergyman, padded about on the outskirts of the discussion, making obvious remarks about the sanctity of marriage and enunciating the highest principles, which he promptly swallowed.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 Various 1898

  • Richard's pose of insolent indifference would have been beautiful in a gentleman who counted his fortune by millions; in a dollarless beggar who lived off alms it was detestable.

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Mrs. Hanway-Harley could do no more; they would wed, and in later years, while being ground in the mills of a dollarless experience, they might justify the wisdom of her objection.

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Mr. Harley, when emancipated from the thraldom of Storri, was as dollarless so far as immediate cash was concerned as was the stripped

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • True to his kingship, he loved true coin; though abroad on the sea, and no land but dollarless dominions ground, all this silver was worthless as charcoal or diamonds.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

  • But, through all the spheres it would go forth that the Norrises, deceived by gentlemanly manners and appearances, had, falling from their high estate, 'received' a dollarless and unknown man.

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

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