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[ noun ] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Synonyms Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)O_'_Banion was born in poverty , the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer , in the North_Side 's Little_Hell , close by the Sicilian quarter and Death_Corner . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)But Thorpe saw also the hardships of pioneer existence , the cultural poverty of the frontier_settlements , and the slack morality which abounded in the new regions . Related terms wealth financial_condition privation indigence impecuniousness destitution |
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