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Another word for destitute

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Adjective

  1. Not having a desirable element

    Idioms:
    See also:

    full

  2. Having little or no money or wealth

    Idioms:
    See also:

    rich

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Another word for destitute

Modifier
  1. See also:

    poor

    poor

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Sentence Examples

  • Land bears have the soles of the feet destitute of hair, and their fur more or less shaggy.

  • Passages destitute of tombs.

  • Though destitute of metals Aisne furnishes abundance of freestone, gypsum and clay.

  • The revolutionaries went about among the excited people with baskets, begging coppers for their destitute and miserable governor.

  • Among many of the smaller Hymenoptera we find that the wings are almost destitute of nervures.

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