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Dressed in old or worn clothes

In harsh or grievous circumstances

Characterized by poverty or a lack of productivity

Causing unhappiness or discomfort

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Adjective

Extremely poor

on the breadline

in straitened circumstances

without a penny

financially poor

on one's uppers

strapped for cash

as poor as a church mouse

in dire circumstances

in Queer Street

on one's beam-ends

unable to make ends meet

without two pennies to rub together

without two farthings to rub together

underprivileged

in reduced circumstances

without two brass farthings to rub together

without a red cent

without a brass farthing

unable to keep the wolf from the door

without two pennies farthings to rub together

behind eight ball

without a penny to one's name

on the bread line

on one's beam ends

without a shot in one's locker

poor as a church mouse

in distressed circumstances

down to last cent

down to last penny

in dire straits

economically disadvantaged

in financial difficulties

not having two pennies to rub together

not having two farthings to rub together

financially distressed

financially embarrassed

without means of support

out of business

discriminated against

in the poorhouse

in administration

in receivership

in Carey Street

gone to the wall

in the hands of the receivers

economically deprived

financially disadvantaged

unable to pay one's debts

financially ruined

taken to the cleaners

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“His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers.”

Adjective

Dressed in old or worn clothes

down-at-the-heels

poorly maintained

falling apart at the seams

the worse for wear

having seen better days

all the worse for wear

gone to rack and ruin

falling to pieces

on its last legs

unprepossessing

down-at-the-heel

seen better days

badly maintained

decrepit. in ruins

down at the heel

out of condition

in bad condition

cheap and nasty

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Adjective

In harsh or grievous circumstances

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

heart-wrenching

energy-consuming

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Adjective

Characterized by poverty or a lack of productivity

Adjective

Causing unhappiness or discomfort

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

in the doldrums

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

given to looking on the black side

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