adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
die penniless (= without any money )
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Van Gogh died penniless because nobody bought his paintings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He had gone from being a penniless student to become a multimillionaire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A group of deaf people were left penniless after their holiday was cancelled.
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I don't want to go down in history as a great songwriter because I died penniless .
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I had reached their house late at night from the train station, absolutely penniless .
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In the late Fifties and early Sixties these proved irresistible to a group of penniless artists looking for space for free.
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Ruling over these penniless black workpeople was a society of cultivated, well-mannered whites, a powerful colonial aristocracy.
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She died penniless , in 1951, of liver and heart failure.
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Uncle Charlie was also with us now, and Uncle Charlie was jobless and penniless .