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Penniless   /pˈɛniləs/   Listen
Penniless

adjective
1.
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.  Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched.



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"Penniless" Quotes from Famous Books



... will love her if I leave her penniless," said Gawtrey, abruptly. "It was your love for your mother and your brother that made me like you from the first. Ay," continued Gawtrey, in a tone of great earnestness, "ay, and whatever may happen to me, I will strive and keep you, my poor lad, ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... shrunken and hollow-looking, shabbily dressed, and apparently poverty-stricken. On making inquiry, he found it was Trevithick, the builder of the first railroad locomotive! He was returning home from the gold-mines of Peru penniless. He had left England in 1816, with powerful steam-engines, intended for the drainage and working of the Peruvian mines. He met with almost a royal reception on his landing at Lima. A guard of honour was appointed ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

... all have forsaken him, his hope blasted, his ambition gone, and he feels that no one has confidence in him, no one cares for him. In this condition he wends his way to an institution of reform, a penniless, homeless, degraded, lost and hopeless drunkard. Here is our subject, how shall we save him? He has come from the squalid dens, and lanes of filth, of misery, of want, of debauchery and death; no home, no sympathy and no kind words have greeted him, perhaps, for years. He is taken to ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur

... it was of her—this day. How beggared she felt! The fact that she was very nearly penniless troubled her very little; it was the homelessness—friendlessness—that frightened her. She had never had but two friends: the one who had gone so long ago was past helping her ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer

... a surprising fact, says a contemporary, that when LENIN was born his parents were practically penniless. The greater mystery is that his parents ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 25, 1919 • Various


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