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Adjective
Short of money
hard up
destitute
impoverished
poor
penniless
impecunious
needy
indigent
penurious
broke
skint
beggared
necessitous
pauperized
beggarly
needful
strapped
threadbare
bankrupt
moneyless
famished
bust
poverty-stricken
dirt-poor
flat broke
in straitened circumstances
down-and-out
badly off
stony broke
without a sou
cleaned out
strapped for cash
in reduced circumstances
stone broke
in Queer Street
unable to make ends meet
out at elbows
out of pocket
in the red
down on luck
short of money
without a brass farthing
without a red cent
financially distressed
in financial difficulties
short of cash
without means of support
in a bad way
not having two farthings to rub together
not having two pennies to rub together
without a shot in one's locker
in need
without two pennies to rub together
in want
insolvent
on the breadline
as poor as a church mouse
underprivileged
down and out
ruined
without two farthings to rub together
deprived
dirt poor
without two brass farthings to rub together
disadvantaged
without a penny
in penury
on one's uppers
boracic
down at heel
distressed
unprosperous
short
boracic lint
without a bean
flat
on skid row
stony-broke
dead broke
on the rocks
broken
homeless
pinched
low-income
busted
on one's beam-ends
up against it
in the gutter
truly needy
wiped out
hard-pressed
in debt
without two pennies farthings to rub together
tapped out
bad off
without a penny to one's name
economically disadvantaged
fortuneless
have-not
reduced
suffering
indebted
over a barrel
without a dime
on one's beam ends
cashless
empty-handed
lacking
cash-strapped
unable to keep the wolf from the door
behind eight ball
poor as a church mouse
on last leg
down to last penny
in Chapter 11
unfortunate
stony
unlucky
economically deprived
financially disadvantaged
down to last cent
bankrupted
in need of
out of cash
on a tight budget
on the dole
signing on
struggling
scanty
low
meagerUS
meagreUK
pathetic
abject
without money
overdrawn
stone-broke
wanting
vagrant
down-at-heel
shabby
seedy
vagabond
unmoneyed
miserably poor
financially poor
extremely poor
impencunious
in great need
very poor
in dire circumstances
on the skids
in the poorhouse
derelict
on the streets
finished
depressed
unaffluent
unfavored
unprivileged
neglected
in distress
in dire straits
handicapped
ill-fated
hapless
ill-starred
low-paid
craptastic
straitened
crippled
liquidated
hurting
in Carey Street
foreclosed
lost
gone under
in administration
unable to pay one's debts
collapsed
out of money
defaulting
undone
in receivership
financially ruined
belly-up
in Chapter 13
failed
gone bust
in the hands of the receivers
taken to the cleaners
gone to the wall
in distressed circumstances
rundown
denuded
bereft
forlorn
dispossessed
underserved
on the bread line
“Despite his accomplishment, when By returned Britain in 1832, he was scape-goated by a financially embarrassed government and forced to face a court of enquiry for cost overruns. He died soon after, a disappointed man.”
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