penury in English
he died in a state of virtual penury
Use "penury" in a sentence
1. He died in penury.
2. Beggary definition is - poverty, penury
3. How can we quit penury?
4. The family lived in penury.
5. They were reduced to penury.
6. Laid - off workers fall into penury.
7. The show went into penury, I think.
8. He who sows misery, reaps but penury!
9. Peoples in Africa are living in penury.
10. He was cradled in the lap of penury.
11. He was brought up in penury, without education.
12. Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
13. A succession of bad harvests had reduced the small farmers to penury.
14. He was talking about the embarrassment penury - and advocating higher salaries for MPs.
15. It transforms a state of wealth into a state of penury.
16. Synonyms for Beggary include destitution, indigence, pauperism, need, poverty, want, bankruptcy, impecuniousness, impoverishment and penury
17. When his pension fund failed, George feared he would end his days in penury.
18. A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.
19. But penury, though exasperating enough, was not the whole of his distress.
20. 10 But penury, though exasperating enough, was not the whole of his distress.
21. First of all, raising the price only can limited many persons living in penury.
22. As long as they had their beloved stock market, they seemed not to mind their relative penury.
23. Antonyms for Affluence include poverty, destitution, indigence, penury, beggary, impoverishment, pauperism, deprivation, hardship and privation
24. Mr Thomas was born in penury and grew up with bare feet and intestinal worms.
25. In all labour there is profit : but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
26. Whereas, Contrariwise, the close and reserved living of noblemen and gentlemen, causeth a penury of military forces.
27. While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury.
28. If any doctor had depended on us for his living, then he would have died in penury.
29. Even Kopacz admitted the contrast between the “public affluence” that everyone sees and the “private penury” that many feel persists (at least relative to Germany, the preferred benchmark for Poles).
30. This is the guise adopted by Edgar, the banished son of the Earl of Gloucester, who Begrimes his face and tears his clothes to pass as ‘poor Tom’, ‘the basest and most poorest shape / That ever penury in contempt of man / Brought near to beast’ (2.2.164–66).
31. Extreme poverty, deep poverty, Abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information