a.
1.
Destitute, indigent, needy, poor.
2.
Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, mean-spirited, niggardly, stingy, scant, wretched, miserly, stinted.