How to Use impecunious in a Sentence

impecunious

adjective

• New Jersey, one of the most impecunious states in the union, was behind this week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning a federal ban on sports gambling.
  — Holman Jenkins, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• Machen’s father was an impecunious clergyman, his mother an invalid, and their son a solitary but not lonely child.
  — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
• To sum things up without any spoilers (though the big reveal comes not long into the play, so the term spoiler is relative), impecunious book scout Edmund (Stewart) is facing eviction.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• Tyndall’s life began humbly, in a respectable but impecunious Irish family whose Protestant roots shaped his lifelong opposition to home rule.
  — Peter Pesic, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• The son of an impecunious Prussian high-school teacher, Helmholtz originally wanted to be a physicist, but economic necessity led him to become an army surgeon.
  — Peter Pesic, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• Lord Dundonald, an impecunious earl with an inventive streak, patented the processing of smelting coke—a key development, converting coal to a nearly pure carbon state that produced an easy-to-work iron.
  — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• I.T. specialists, professionals and retirees are descending on the town, squeezing out the more chilled-out — and impecunious — population.
  — Tony Perrottet, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2016
• When that diversity eventually dwindled, as foreign investors and the banking class overtook the impecunious artistic one, Manhattan club life began to lose some of its vigor.
  — Guy Trebay, Town & Country, 3 Dec. 2020
• Once the pioneers of modern design on the Vineyard were impecunious architects and academics, while today only the very wealthy can afford to build on what has become incredibly desirable real estate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2021
• Private-equity firms, which have mountains of committed investor cash, may start buying up fundamentally sound but impecunious suppliers in various industries, aware that when demand returns such companies will see its first fruits.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024