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Definition of penniless
: destitute of money
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Examples of penniless in a Sentence
She was unemployed and penniless.
went from being a penniless girl to owner of her own restaurant
Recent Examples of penniless from the Web
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Blind and penniless, Johnson played and preached on the streets to earn a living.
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A 2013 Gaston Gazette article reported Helms was penniless and his Belmont home was empty and in foreclosure.
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Pelle the Conqueror Penniless Swedes emigrate to Denmark in the late 1850s in hopes of finding work and starting a new life.
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At the meager end of the Live.ly economy, penniless teenagers toil to scrape together enough to buy the cheapest gifts.
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Mr. Urie portrays Ivan Alexandreyevich Hlestakov, a jobless dandy and former minor clerk from St. Petersburg, who winds up penniless and suicidal in a remote village inn.
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In the early 2000s, as Starbucks was expanding at light speed, lattes were supposedly the reason that Americans were penniless failures.
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Homeless and penniless, Grace moves her family into her dead mother-in-law’s home and gets a job at a doctor’s office.
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The family was close to penniless, and Doris was left to raise her four children alone.
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First Known Use of penniless
14th century
PENNILESS Defined for English Language Learners
penniless
playDefinition of penniless for English Language Learners
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: having no money : very poor
PENNILESS Defined for Kids
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: very poor : having no money
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