Penniless
adjective
Having no money; very poor.
After gambling away his fortune, he was left penniless.
Often appears as...
- left penniless
- die penniless
adjective
Having no money; very poor.
After gambling away his fortune, he was left penniless.
Often appears as...
- left penniless
- die penniless
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
The term evokes sympathy or sadness, suggesting extreme poverty or misfortune.
Once a wealthy man, now he roams the streets penniless.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Broke
'Penniless' often implies a lack of resources beyond just money, like support or assets.
She found herself alone and penniless in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Can refer to a momentary situation, not necessarily a permanent condition.
After paying all the bills, I'm penniless until payday.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
The term evokes sympathy or sadness, suggesting extreme poverty or misfortune.
Once a wealthy man, now he roams the streets penniless.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Broke
'Penniless' often implies a lack of resources beyond just money, like support or assets.
She found herself alone and penniless in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Can refer to a momentary situation, not necessarily a permanent condition.
After paying all the bills, I'm penniless until payday.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
The term evokes sympathy or sadness, suggesting extreme poverty or misfortune.
Once a wealthy man, now he roams the streets penniless.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Broke
'Penniless' often implies a lack of resources beyond just money, like support or assets.
She found herself alone and penniless in the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Can refer to a momentary situation, not necessarily a permanent condition.
After paying all the bills, I'm penniless until payday.
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Tan Le: My immigration...
There was an energy there, an implacable optimism, a strange mixture of humility and daring. So I followed my hunches. I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label "It can't be done" was an irresistible challenge. For a year, we were penniless.
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My immigration story -...
optimism a strange mixture of humility and daring so I followed my hunches I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label it can't be done was an irresistible challenge for a year we were penniless at the end of
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Can I Get a Witness? PIPE...
later Lee wakes up from his coma to find he's in big trouble with the cops disabled penniless and alone Lee has no option but to cooperate with the feds
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Tan Le: My immigration...
There was an energy there, an implacable optimism, a strange mixture of humility and daring. So I followed my hunches. I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label "It can't be done" was an irresistible challenge. For a year, we were penniless.
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My immigration story -...
optimism a strange mixture of humility and daring so I followed my hunches I gathered around me a small team of people for whom the label it can't be done was an irresistible challenge for a year we were penniless at the end of
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Can I Get a Witness? PIPE...
later Lee wakes up from his coma to find he's in big trouble with the cops disabled penniless and alone Lee has no option but to cooperate with the feds
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Carmen Dell'Orefice
American Model
There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.
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Susan Hayward
American Actress
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
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Christopher McCandless
American Explorer
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
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Jose Jose
Mexican Musician
Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.
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Pearl White
American Musician
The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
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W. E. B. Du Bois
American Writer
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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John Leguizamo
Colombian Comedian
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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Ryan Tedder
American Musician
When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
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Carmen Dell'Orefice
American Model
There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.
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Susan Hayward
American Actress
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
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Christopher McCandless
American Explorer
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
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Jose Jose
Mexican Musician
Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.
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Pearl White
American Musician
The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
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W. E. B. Du Bois
American Writer
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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John Leguizamo
Colombian Comedian
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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Ryan Tedder
American Musician
When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
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