penniless的意思|penniless的解释-里氏词典

penniless ['penilis]

a. 赤贫的, 贫穷的

penniless

[ adj ]
not having enough money to pay for necessities
<adj.all>

Penniless \Pen"ni*less\, a. [From {Penny}.]
Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- {Pen"ni*less*ness},
n.

Schnelz said he may grant a suspended sentence because Streefkerk is penniless and terminally ill.
Cosby faces another crisis: His children will be penniless unless he swings a deal for his bombastic boss (Barry Corbin). Since Cosby is visible only in the dark, it's not easy.
This time, however, instead of rich British employers for the sensitive, modest and penniless adventuress, we have a bevy of opulent Argentines speaking to one another in heavily accented English.
Angie Liberace testified last week she was "penniless" and had to live off charity.
Murders increased 15 percent, to 177 last year, and Zepeda said automatic rifles, sold by penniless Contras for $300 to $400, are showing up in the hands of ordinary criminals.
"I plan to die without a nickel," she notes calmly. "I will be penniless, but not a pauper.
That music promised glitter and elegance, which isn't exactly the kind of life she fell into in New York as the wife of a penniless boxer.
Doctors who pioneered the system recalled Tuesday how its birth ended the fear of being ill and penniless.
Five years later she died, penniless and forgotten. The actress was Dora Jordan and her common-law husband was the future King William IV, with whom she lived in domestic bliss for 21 years.
Like penniless Vincent van Gogh, whose painting "Irises" recently sold for $54 million, one can imagine John Goddard sitting on a cloud and numbly shaking his head over the price of dying too soon.
He left Poland at the age of 21, first going to Sweden, then arriving pretty much penniless in Canada in 1970.
Sent into the world penniless at 17, she became a prostitute and then, during a series of eight marriages, the richest woman in the world.
Ruled, 6-3, that lawyers in the nation's capital violated antitrust law when they went "on strike" to demand higher pay from the city for representing penniless criminal defendants.

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