Crossword-Solution: POORNESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poorness | n. | The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POORNESS | anagram | SNOOPERS, SPOONERS |
We have 22 clues for the answer “POORNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the quality of being poorly made or maintained | 1 answer |
| State of need | 1 answer |
| Lacking in wealth | 1 answer |
| neediness | 35 answers |
| impecuniousness | 35 answers |
| Penury | 35 answers |
| patchiness | 37 answers |
| beggarliness | 38 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| dispossession | 39 answers |
| impoverishment | 40 answers |
| privation | 40 answers |
| insolvency | 41 answers |
| destitution | 43 answers |
| scarceness | 44 answers |
| Arrears | 50 answers |
| DEBIT ___ | 53 answers |
| shortfall | 58 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| Misery | 69 answers |
| deficit | 70 answers |
| Hardship | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POORNESS (5)
And while the moon Swings slow across the sky, Athwart a waving pine tree, And soon Tips all the needles there With silver sparkles, bitterly He gazes, while his soul Grows hard with thinking of the poorness of his dole.
They often sat up clasping their knees, Marco on his poor bed, The Rat on his hard sofa, but neither of them conscious either of the poorness or hardness, because to each one the long unknown sense of companionship was such a satisfying thing.
For if a man have that penetration of judgment, as he can discern what things are to be laid open, and what to be secreted, and what to be showed at half lights, and to whom and when (which indeed are arts of state, and arts of life, as Tacitus well calleth them), to him, a habit of dissimulation is a hinderance and a poorness.
From the poorness of my lodging—he does not seem to have remarked his daughter’s dresses, which were indeed all equally new to him—and from the fact that I had shown myself averse to lend, he had embraced a strong idea of my poverty.
Such was the poorness of the neighbourhood that none of the Lancastrian lords, and but few of their retainers, had been lodged therein; and the inhabitants, with one accord, deserted their houses and fled, squalling, along the streets or over garden walls.
Quotes with POORNESS (3)
Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.
I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2000–2005).