How To Use Impecunious In A Sentence
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So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
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Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944.
This Was Not Yvette
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The neighbour who gave me the tickets was an impecunious artist and I was sitting in the cheap seats, just out of range, even from ricochets.
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The stock market crash in the 1920s left him impecunious, however, and his attempt to make a mark as a painter came to little.
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And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous.
A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
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The minister who hardens his heart to a call, and waits for a certain congregation to offer him say five hundred a year more, often finds himself scabbed upon by another and more impecunious minister; and the next time it is his turn to scab while a brother minister is hardening his heart to a call.
THE SCAB
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She liked him the better for a rugged independence, which in the days of his impecuniousness her brother
The Adventures of Sally
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When it adopted her point of view, you saw the shame and impecuniousness behind the cover-girl mask.
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Last chance---a spinster, impecunious, and without connections.
A RAKE'S VOW
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He said his father, whom he once described as an impecunious civil servant, urged him to pursue a more secure career.
NYT > Global Home
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Brown Institution trust funds were never adequate, but Twort preferred impecunious independence.
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I thought that Shaw came from a fairly impecunious Scots family.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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The "impecunious" deserter fared more hardly; and would, usually, be forced by hunger and thirst to emerge from his hiding place, while the steamer was on the outward voyage.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
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Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
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I was aware of two games on Saturday where the relatively impecunious visitors were regarded as massive underdogs.
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When you are young and impecunious and just out of college, these things are important.
Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room
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Cecil Fridjohn, my father, came from an impecunious Irish Jewish family.
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Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
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The opportunity to compete in Europe would be a major boost to the impecunious Bosnian game for it is a poor country with little money available to develop its football.
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Seth has a sense of honor which I call quixotic, and one that might reasonably shame the impecunious fortune-hunters I've met since I have lived in England.
The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies
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He felt as if all the years of hard work in London had come to nought, angry that I had somehow misrepresented my financial position and that I seemed bent on continuing to write even though it meant impecuniousness for us as a family.
A better woman
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Students who come to apartments for ‘free talk’ may offer to escort a foreign teacher downtown on Saturdays to explore bargain shopping districts or taste inexpensive regional cuisine at restaurants known to impecunious students.
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As early as July, Maximilian, shiftiest and most impecunious of princes, concluded at Frankfort an independent treaty with France; who agreed to give up the places she occupied in Brittany if Henry were compelled to withdraw his garrisons; while there were signs that she might cede Roussillon and thus deprive
England under the Tudors
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Occasionally, the owner took pity on us impecunious students and gave us an offcut of something for free.
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At last when attempts were made to elect to Parliament an Irish lawyer who added to his impecuniousness, eloquence, a half-finished University education, and an Orangeman's prejudices of the best brand of Belfast or Derry, inter-civic strife took the form of physical violence.
The World for Sale, Complete
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The title explains a lot - a dishonoured soccer champ wants to assemble and coach a winning team to confront his nemesis, while mouthy yet impecunious martial artist Sing wants to spread the word of kung fu.
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Like many other impecunious Caribbean drifters at the time, Dampier slipped into a life of freebooting and buccaneering, hopping from ship to ship, raiding Spanish vessels and towns.
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We keep the word and often use it as in "pecuniary" affairs, and when we call a moneyless man, "impecunious.
Business Hints for Men and Women
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As an impecunious artist myself, I have indeed had to learn to live by my wits, and by whatever sparse and sporadic income I can glean from my paintings.
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There's nothing like recent impecuniousness to encourage extravagance and for some reason I headed west with a vague idea of Chelsea or Kensington - Chelsea particularly.
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For there was no love lost between Church and Chapel in Trover, and the rector's flock had long been fortified in their power of 'parting' by fear lest 'Chapel' (also present that day in court) should mock at his impecuniousness.
Tatterdemalion
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There was reason for believing that David's stolid silence regarding his own concerns concealed a general impecuniousness quite as pronounced as that of the artist friends whose cause he pleaded.
War-time Silhouettes
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One way is that, as the "food revolution" meets an increasingly impecunious American public, chain restaurants are thriving.
10 Chain Restaurants Worth Visiting
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Last chance---a spinster, impecunious, and without connections.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Cecil Fridjohn, my father, came from an impecunious Irish Jewish family.
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The bill would allow the impecunious tramp, corner loafer, pimp and saloon bummer, who have no interests at stake, to go to the polls and make their voices heard.
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That's gelt, Yiddish for dinero, not to be confused with geld, meaning "to castrate," though, come to think of it, that may be something to look at down the road for some impecunious serial inseminators who clog up the system.
Lionel: Gelt For Geezers: Obama's New Healthcare Plan
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I first knew him as an impecunious student living in a tiny bedsit.
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Is it true that impecunious Lord Heverton is wooing a wealthy widow from Brighton with nary a title to her name?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Unfortunately, impecunious students like me who went there in search of good bargains (like the fabulous ones they had last year) came away disappointed.
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Toby is an impecunious relative of Olivia's and a kind of Falstaffian moocher whose continued presence in the house is a drain on Olivia's patience and her pocketbook.
Shakespeare
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I grant you that it is possible that future voters might in principle decide to vote for government bankruptcy and to allow the old and impecunious to starve.
IRA's to the Rescue?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He gave impecunious artists credit, not always willingly.
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It was a weird, improbable metamorphosis for the plump, gypsy-like woman with long batik dresses and dyed-black hair Jane had last seen arguing with impecunious guests on Kuta beach.
A Covert Affair
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Superb presents can be had here - though not by the impecunious.
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Impecunious and improvident - or, as one biographer phrased it more kindly, ‘unprosperous’ were invariably on the list of invocations as well.
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The neighbour who gave me the tickets was an impecunious artist and I was sitting in the cheap seats, just out of range, even from ricochets.
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The family was very poor, an impecunious state somewhat worsened by the fact that while the other lads playing in the street would be called in for their tea at six, he and his younger brother would go into an empty house.
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Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He was mainly a designer, and his career - from impecunious family in Glasgow to a large house with servants in Kensington - demonstrated what talent and hard work could do in Victorian Britain.
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Occasionally, the owner took pity on us impecunious students and gave us an offcut of something for free.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't know whether those furry impecunious gourmands will go for these unusual pepper varieties as much as I do, so just in case I also interspersed some jalapenos, tabascos and Thai Dragons.
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It should go without saying it is a dish with which I am well familiar, having produced many of my own during my impecunious early 20s.
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Thus, the case for spending money on him rather than an impecunious prospect becomes harder to argue.
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Robbins was an impecunious 27-year-old journalist when he first met Hurst, then aged 80, who commissioned him to pen a screenplay for a biblical blockbuster.
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Why the Impecunious Girl Concluded to Give Up Her Flat for the Summer.
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More than half of the work I do now is for non-profit organisations, but that world is neither as acquiescent in terms of helping designers realise their dreams nor as impecunious as you may think it is.
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Anyone from any nation, no matter how affluent or impecunious they may be, can step on to our golden sands and enjoy the gifts of our national icons.
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As an impecunious student, I rashly thumbed a ride from an advertising executive who went for the sound barrier while tailgating the cars in front and playing chicken with oncoming lorries.
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The remaining cause of diocesan impecuniousness is put down to a “loss of investment income”.
The Diocese of Niagara: Passion for Justice and appeal for $750,000 « Anglican Samizdat
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He was originally supposed to be going into the cavalry, but had realized that the young Cavalry officers had ‘private means’ and rather than admit to a relative impecuniousness asked for a transfer to the tank corps.
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Like Gertrude, whose behaviour provides too insubstantial a cause for Hamlet's disgust, Cherie's impecunious mother makes an inadequate pretext for her affluent daughter's lifelong miserliness and greed.
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At the time the story goes he was an impecunious writer suffering from writer's block.
Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark
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It is frustrating to consider how powerful our back play might have been, had impecuniousness not obliged the club to dispense with the services of the two.
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I thought that Shaw came from a fairly impecunious Scots family.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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This brought up the matter of their Malderpot-induced impecuniousness.
The Day of the Dissonance
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There was only one Indian restaurant in Greater Boston, and as an impecunious student I couldn't afford to go there more than once a semester.
