Usage examples (32)

• If our destitution is the result of our economic freedom, why maintain the pretense of preserving capitalism?
• The most sordid destitution -- if ignorance of comfort can be called destitution -- reigned everywhere around.
• Yet Suro doesn’t account for the fact that, for many immigrants, shear economic destitution is often what drives ambition and any sense of adventure.
• "little lad's" hand; now, grown feebler than the child, she trembled at the idea of destitution; she hoarded, and asked charity of the priests.