chiefly British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for skint
Adjective
  • Infectious disease experts note that the vitamin is most useful in impoverished countries where children are significantly malnourished.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston.
    Brian Mahoney, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
  • Boston built big second-half leads on New York in both Games 1 and 2 at home, but squandered them due to uncharacteristically poor 3-point shooting.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, countless others who chased hot tips and quick wins are broke, both financially and emotionally.
    Shane Enete, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Chicago Tribune 1924: After spending his final years living in the Hotel Warner at 33rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, penniless and in rapidly declining health, architect Louis Sullivan died.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Eugene was penniless and in debt to his sister to the tune of $2,000.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Opinion The weight-loss club may be bankrupt, but diet culture has never been richer.
    Chloe Laws, Glamour, 9 May 2025
  • Last June, a judge signed off on Do Kwon and his bankrupt Terraform Labs settling with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $4.5 billion.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 8 May 2025
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“Skint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skint. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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