Crossword-Solution: PENNILESS 9 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Penniless a. Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.

We have 36 clues for the answer “PENNILESS”

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Simple Simon's status. 1 answer
Without a sou 3 answers
having no money 4 answers
Poverty-stricken 5 answers
OVER a barrel 6 answers
In dire straits 7 answers
Flat broke 8 answers
Underprivileged 10 answers
LACKING necessities of life 11 answers
Strapped 13 answers
GRUNGY 15 answers
out at heels 16 answers
BAD OFF 24 answers
beggared 31 answers
schlock 39 answers
Impecunious 40 answers
penurious 42 answers
Needy 43 answers
Hard up 44 answers
Worn out 47 answers
dirt poor 48 answers
Threadbare 48 answers
Underfed 51 answers
scruffy 52 answers
Indigent 55 answers
Emaciated 56 answers
starving 58 answers
Tattered 59 answers
seedy 63 answers
Ragged 65 answers
Deficient 65 answers
Broke 65 answers
Impoverished 68 answers
Destitute 72 answers
Shoddy 75 answers
Poor 92 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PENNILESS (5)

When he had picked it up he had been an English nobleman, the proud and wealthy possessor of vast estates—a moment later he had read it, and he knew that he was an untitled and penniless beggar.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
His hands and arms moved convulsively, as if struggling with the nightmare; and besides several ejaculations in Hebrew, the following were distinctly heard in the Norman-English, or mixed language of the country: “For the sake of the God of Abraham, spare an unhappy old man! I am poor, I am penniless—should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you!” The Palmer awaited not the end of the Jew’s vision, but stirred him with his pilgrim’s staff.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Why had they not dispatched him where they had found him? He was some penniless beggar of a trader who had wandered from his own district and became lost.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
And he lays it all at the feet of that young girl who is wandering in yonder boschetto with a penniless artist.” “He is certainly a phoenix of princes! The signora must be in a state of bliss.” The Cavaliere looked imperturbably grave.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Bellegarde, penniless patrician as he was, was an insatiable collector, and his walls were covered with rusty arms and ancient panels and platters, his doorways draped in faded tapestries, his floors muffled in the skins of beasts.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with PENNILESS (3)

She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.
Vann Chow Shanghai Nobody
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mist…
W.H. Auden
I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot.
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1961–2020).