Strapped for cash
Publish date: 2024-05-05
| • | Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent. |
| • | So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. |
| • | Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected |
| • | Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. |
| • | Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. |
| • | Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. |
| • | Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil. |
| • | Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture. |
| • | Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night. |
| • | Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse. |
| • | Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt. |
| • | Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. |
| • | A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod. |
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