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What is another word for down and out?

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Adjective
Without money or financially impoverished
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“I have been in situations like this many times where I was down and out and penniless in strange towns far from home.”
Adjective
Without a home to live in
“I was just busy bawling my eyes out at the time, walking down the street in that seedy part of LA like it was meant for me, me and all the other down and out homeless people.”
Adjective
Unemployed or without a job
“Frog Dickie, who had returned home from the Job Corps, was unemployed and down and out, so I put him to work.”
Adjective
Feeling depressed or melancholy
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Having been disgraced
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Without hope or prospect of completion, success, or survival
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Weak or lacking in strength
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Noun
A person without money or who is in financial difficulty
“He claimed to have shoveled snow as a penniless down and out while the Emperor wined and dined inside.”
Noun
A person without a home
“Craig is undercover as some homeless down and out in early scenes in the film.”
Noun
A person without a job, especially one who is destitute
“The suspect's unkempt appearance, complete with trademark sunglasses, and the way he disguised his cultivated voice, convinced officers they were hunting an unemployed down and out.”
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