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Adjective: penniless  pe-nee-lus
  1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities
    "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless";
    - hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched, badly-off

See also: poor

Encyclopedia: Penniless

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