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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BAD
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"

BUM
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

4 letters

SLIM
Take off weight

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

5 letters

INEPT
Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"

SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

NEEDY
Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

BROKE
Lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"

6 letters

INWANT

BADOFF

HARDUP
Not having enough money to pay for necessities

INNEED

INNEED

SUBPAR

SCANTY
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

MEAGER
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

MEAGRE
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

MEASLY
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

7 letters

PITEOUS
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

PITIFUL
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

HAPLESS
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

8 letters

NOTSOHOT

NOTSOHOT

INDIGENT
Poor enough to need help from others

WRETCHED
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

PITIABLE
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

PATHETIC
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

BADLYOFF

INFERIOR
One of lesser rank or station or quality

SLIPSHOD
Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

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DEFICIENT
Falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

PENURIOUS
Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

THIRDRATE

MISERABLE
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

PENNILESS
Not having enough money to pay for necessities

UNSKILLED
Not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"

DESTITUTE
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

10 letters

SECONDRATE

POORPEOPLE
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"

INADEQUATE
Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"

11 letters

UNFORTUNATE
A person who suffers misfortune

IMPECUNIOUS
Not having enough money to pay for necessities

SUBSTANDARD
Falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"

12 letters

IMPOVERISHED
Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

MISFORTUNATE
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

14 letters

UNSATISFACTORY
Not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory"

NOTASFORTUNATE