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111forlorn — adj 1. miserable, wretched, abject, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, pathetic, pathetical, woebegone, woeful, Archaic. woesome, Obs. baleful; desolate, dreary, Literary. drear, dismal, gloomy, lugubrious, funereal; depressed, dispirited, dejected,… …
112miserable — adj 1. forlorn, woeful or woful, woebegone, Archaic. woesome, Obs. baleful, heartsick, downhearted, broken hearted, heartbroken, crushed, broken, desolate, despairing; worried, anxious, afflicted, stricken, heavy laden; down, disconsolate,… …
113moneyless — adj 1. penniless, without a cent, Fr. sans sou. poor as a churchmouse, poor as Job s turkey, unable to keep the wolf from the door; busted, Inf. broke or flat broke, Inf. hard up, Sl. stony or stone broke; bankrupt, out of pocket, without funds,… …
114penniless — adj 1. without a cent, Fr. sans sou. poor as a churchmouse, poor as Job s turkey, unable to keep the wolf from the door; moneyless, Inf. broke or flat broke, busted, Inf. hard up, Sl. stony or stone broke; bankrupt, out of pocket, without funds,… …
115sorry — adj 1. remorseful, regretful, rueful, contrite, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, guilt ridden, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, pentitential, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; humbled,… …
116seedy — a. (Colloq.) 1. Old, worn, faded shabby. 2. Poor, needy, destitute, indigent, distressed, penniless, pinched, out of money, short of money, out of pocket, out of cash, out at the elbows, in need, in want, in distress …
117splay — v., n., & adj. v. 1 tr. (usu. foll. by out) spread (the elbows, feet, etc.) out. 2 intr. (of an aperture or its sides) diverge in shape or position. 3 tr. construct (a window, doorway, aperture, etc.) so that it diverges or is wider at one side… …
118heel — n 1. foot, hoof, kicker, Latin, calx; heel bone, Anat. calcaneus, Anat. os calcis; (of some animals) hock, Anat. hallux, (of birds) spur. 2. lift, heelpiece, heeltap, spike, wedgie. 3. conclusion, tail end, fag end, rind, crust; remnant,… …
119penurious — adj 1. stingy, parsimonious, miserly, carking, skinflinty; mean, tight, tight fisted, close fisted; cheap, Sl. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping; niggardly, Rare. illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous …
120ruined — adj 1. dilapidated, decrepit, in ruins, derelict, gone to wrack and ruin, the worse for wear, weather beaten, weather scarred, blasted; blighted, rotting, deteriorated, crumbling, falling down, going to pieces, Inf. tottering, nodding to its… …
