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n. - A state of lacking money.

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  • They lived in dread of the pettiest casual expense, for the day of pennilessness was again approaching.
  • My efforts are utterly vain; I suppose the prospect of pennilessness is itself a hindrance; the fear haunts me.
  • To hear her tell it, rich, supportive husbands are always dropping dead of heart attacks, or going to the loony bin, or running off with the secretary, leaving poor “Patsy” on...
  • In the midst of young Redburn's good manners and proper upbringing, his being the son of a Melville and a Gansevoort is a grotesque irrelevance; the truth of his life as others...
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