penniless

[US]/'penɪlɪs/
[UK]/ˈpɛnilɪs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. without a penny; extremely poor.

Example Sentences

The legal dispute left them penniless.

He found himself penniless in a strange city.

He died penniless in Paris.

why should she choose to wander the world with a penniless gypsy like me?.

Jobless and penniless, he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.

" He was an old emigre gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute in his attic, in order to pass the time.

In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress .

He lived well, helping the poor, and all other people; he died penniless and unknown.

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