PENNILESS


Meaning of PENNILESS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

die penniless (= without any money )

Van Gogh died penniless because nobody bought his paintings.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He had gone from being a penniless student to become a multimillionaire.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A group of deaf people were left penniless after their holiday was cancelled.

I don't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless .

I had reached their house late at night from the train station, absolutely penniless .

In the late Fifties and early Sixties these proved irresistible to a group of penniless artists looking for space for free.

Ruling over these penniless black workpeople was a society of cultivated, well-mannered whites, a powerful colonial aristocracy.

She died penniless , in 1951, of liver and heart failure.

Uncle Charlie was also with us now, and Uncle Charlie was jobless and penniless .

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