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  • adjective lacking funds

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Examples

  • Given that we are stony-broke, due to the hefty acceleration of gasoline prices, the increase in tuition at the kid's school, and what's been going on with our gas and electic and water bills lately, not to mention the water bills 40% increase in the water bill!

    Wow! delagar 2007

  • Given that we are stony-broke, due to the hefty acceleration of gasoline prices, the increase in tuition at the kid's school, and what's been going on with our gas and electic and water bills lately, not to mention the water bills 40% increase in the water bill!

    Archive 2007-11-01 delagar 2007

  • Which is good, since we are stony-broke ourselves.

    Archive 2006-03-01 delagar 2006

  • Once I've put something on those -- I owe the hospital, the dentist, the clinic -- I'll be stony-broke again.

    Archive 2006-05-01 delagar 2006

  • Once I've put something on those -- I owe the hospital, the dentist, the clinic -- I'll be stony-broke again.

    Feeling the Pinch in Pork Smith delagar 2006

  • Which is good, since we are stony-broke ourselves.

    Good News in the Fort delagar 2006

  • So I resolved to acquire a dog, and bought one from a prospector, who was stony-broke and would have sold his soul for a drink.

    Prester John 2005

  • He's sure stony-broke, not being able to turn a card because of the marshal.

    The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock 1995

  • The stars, it must be said regretfully, in connection with so laudable an ambition, nearly always betrayed him, coming down with an unmistakably meteoric descent, stony-broke in the uttermost ends of the earth, with a strong inclination to bring the cause of that misfortune before the Consular Courts.

    Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Besides, I'm stony-broke and, financially, the great god Gibbs appeals to me.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

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