poorish

adjective

Definition of poorishnext
as in hardscrabble

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poorish
  1. hardscrabble
  2. distressed
  3. depressed
  4. hand-to-mouth
Adjective
  • His hardscrabble background gives him a genuine connection to the white working-class voters who animate Trump’s base and will have outsize influence in the election.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • Six weeks after the perplexing murders, across the country in a small, hardscrabble Pennsylvania town in the Poconos, Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology graduate student, was arrested.
    Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
Definition of hardscrabble
Adjective
  • Olympia coaxes that out of her thanks to a security video Matty obtained from the nail salon where Katya works, showing a woman with the same birthmark on her hand as Caruso’s speaking to a clearly distressed Katya.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Financial sponsors have shied away from distressed restaurant opportunities amid an increasingly challenging macroeconomic backdrop.
    Kimberly Chin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of distressed
Adjective
  • As Christina, the youngest of a trio of sisters, Olsen spends the film playing mediator between Natasha Lyonne’s depressed stoner, Rachel, and Carrie Coon’s domineering control freak, Katie.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Some staffers pretended to call on behalf of a depressed relative.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of depressed
Adjective
  • The brand recommends using them in tandem with NRTs to satiate the hand-to-mouth habit of vaping.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Teach your children how to avoid hand-to-mouth behaviors.
    Steffini Stalos, Verywell Health, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of hand-to-mouth
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