NOUN
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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the quality of being meager
an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes -
the quality of being poorly made or maintained
she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography -
less than adequate
the relative poorness of New England farmland
How To Use poorness In A Sentence
- A habit of dissimulation is a hindrance , and a poorness to him.
- The consistency with which the reviews mention the poorness of the service is very eloquent, demonstrating the decalage between what this place thinks it is and what it actually is.
- Proust considered Millet's weakness to be ‘finishing in the studio… even making up altogether his paintings, which err not only in the poorness of their craft, but also in the poverty of their conception.‘
- He guttered the ball, and felt a small smile come to his face at the poorness of the shot.
- I am always amazed by some of the word uneducated people understand in this country as well as amazed by the poorness of their vocabulary. Trueque
- i heard their "poorness" is contagious, don't let them touch you. Undefined
- Tipperary's failure to Cork was unexpected, based on the poorness of Cork's form the previous week against Offaly.
- She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains.
- Somewhere I have a family tree from my Mothers paternal history and it appears that our trash poorness extended back to the 17th century.
- Crying poorness of country in being unable to handle the Haitian problem is not a solution.
