Definitions

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  • adjective Having little or no wealth, poor.

Etymologies

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From wealth +‎ -less.

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Examples

  • We were friends because we were both outsiders: I, provincial, casteless, wealthless; he a Muslim.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • We were friends because we were both outsiders: I, provincial, casteless, wealthless; he a Muslim.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • We were friends because we were both outsiders: I, provincial, casteless, wealthless; he a Muslim.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    National Review Online 2009

  • 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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