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What is another word for penniless?

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Adjective
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Having below average income or lacking money to sufficiently live comfortably
impoverished
destitute
poor
broke
impecunious
penurious
needy
skint
indigent
beggared
pauperized
necessitous
beggarly
needful
strapped
bankrupt
moneyless
threadbare
famished
insolvent
ruined
underprivileged
bust
short
flat
lacking
poverty-stricken
hard up
flat broke
dirt-poor
in want
in need
stony broke
down-and-out
strapped for cash
in straitened circumstances
badly off
stone broke
on the breadline
without a sou
cleaned out
in reduced circumstances
down and out
dirt poor
as poor as a church mouse
without two pennies to rub together
in Queer Street
in penury
out at elbows
unable to make ends meet
on one's uppers
out of pocket
without a penny
without two farthings to rub together
down at heel
down on luck
dead broke
in the gutter
stony-broke
tapped out
down to last penny
on last leg
over a barrel
without a dime
without two brass farthings to rub together
without a penny to one's name
cash-strapped
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“The movie ignores the fact that he was an alcoholic who died a penniless boozer.”
Adjective
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Reliant on begging, cadging, or mooching for sustenance or support
mendicant
begging
mooching
scrounging
homeless
indigent
vagabond
vagrant
itinerant
wandering
roving
nomadic
roaming
peripatetic
wayfaring
errant
ambulatory
nomad
ambulant
fugitive
drifting
galavanting
gallivanting
unsettled
ranging
perambulatory
peregrine
travellingUK
migratory
migrant
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