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What is another word for in the poorhouse?

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Adjective
Lacking in material possessions or financial wealth
down-and-out
destitute
poor
impoverished
penniless
needy
impecunious
penurious
broke
indigent
skint
necessitous
pauperized
beggared
needful
beggarly
threadbare
moneyless
famished
bankrupt
insolvent
ruined
homeless
vagrant
vagabond
broken
derelict
finished
poverty-stricken
hard up
dirt-poor
flat broke
without two pennies to rub together
on one's uppers
in the red
on the streets
in the gutter
on the skids
strapped
stone broke
stony broke
down and out
strapped for cash
in want
in need
in straitened circumstances
on the breadline
as poor as a church mouse
cleaned out
in reduced circumstances
without a sou
dirt poor
badly off
out at elbows
out of pocket
down on luck
without two farthings to rub together
underprivileged
in Queer Street
unable to make ends meet
in penury
disadvantaged
without two brass farthings to rub together
deprived
bust
without a penny
distressed
down at heel
boracic
unprosperous
without a red cent
without a brass farthing
short
pinched
flat
stony-broke
without a bean
dead broke
boracic lint
reduced
cashless
truly needy
low-income
on skid row
in debt
short of money
tapped out
bad off
without a penny to one's name
living rough
itinerant
sleeping rough
straitened
houseless
unhoused
fortuneless
unfortunate
unlucky
on one's beam-ends
up against it
over a barrel
without a roof
without a dime
empty-handed
have-not
without a shot in one's locker
wiped out
lacking
cash-strapped
busted
unable to keep the wolf from the door
suffering
behind eight ball
on last leg
hard-pressed
down to last penny
in Chapter 11
on the rocks
without two pennies farthings to rub together
of no fixed abode
stony
in need of
out of cash
on a tight budget
struggling
on one's beam ends
poor as a church mouse
without a roof over one's head
down to last cent
pathetic
abject
scanty
low
meagerUS
meagreUK
indebted
without money
overdrawn
wanting
unmoneyed
miserably poor
financially poor
extremely poor
impencunious
in great need
very poor
in dire circumstances
depressed
neglected
financially distressed
in financial difficulties
financially embarrassed
not having two pennies to rub together
not having two farthings to rub together
without means of support
in a bad way
short of cash
handicapped
hapless
unaffluent
unfavored
unprivileged
in distress
in dire straits
economically disadvantaged
ill-fated
ill-starred
low-paid
craptastic
crippled
hurting
in distressed circumstances
displaced
dossing
unsettled
wandering
refugee
adrift
rundown
on the bread line
economically deprived
financially disadvantaged
bankrupted
denuded
bereft
forlorn
underserved
dispossessed
discriminated against
on the dole
signing on
out of money
stone-broke
shabby
slummy
seedy
ghost
shanty
ghetto
run down
run-down
skid row
“I explained to the Bishop that even in the poorhouse I do not want to be separated from my mother, divine Providence, and with this in mind I am happy to share the meals of the poor and to have no fixed salary.”
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