pennyless

adj

pennyless

adj
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Dated Dated form of penniless, today used most often for the sense of "without using pennies" rather than "without money".

  • Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time?1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 79:

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