Poverty-stricken
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Crossword Answers
4 letters
POOR
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"
LEAN
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
5 letters
BROKE
Lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
STONY
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
NEEDY
Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"
NEEDY
6 letters
INNEED
BEREFT
Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
INRAGS
INWANT
SORDID
Meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
SHABBY
Showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
7 letters
BEGGARD
8 letters
BEREAVED
A person who has suffered the death of someone they loved; "the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of"
DEPRIVED
Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"
DIRTPOOR
INDIGENT
Poor enough to need help from others
BADLYOFF
9 letters
PENNILESS
Not having enough money to pay for necessities
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
11 letters
NECESSITOUS
Poor enough to need help from others
12 letters
IMPOVERISHED
Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
13 letters
DOWNATTHEHEEL
15 letters
UNDERPRIVILEGED
Lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society