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penury

English

  1. 🔊 a state of extreme poverty or destitution
    “their indigence appalled him”

Similar words

indigence need pauperism pauperization bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary deprivation destitution empty purse grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impecuniousness impoverishment indigence lack mendicancy moneylessness necessitousness necessity need