Word Finder - poorest

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With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

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We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

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Of low quality.

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That was a poor performance.

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Used to express pity.

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Oh you poor little thing.

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Deficient in a specified way.

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Cow's milk is poor in iron.

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Inadequate, insufficient.

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I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

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Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

It looks poorest when you are richest.

The calorific power of Baku oil appears to be highest, while this oil is poorest in solid hydrocarbons, of which the American petroleums contain moderate quantities, and the Upper Burma oils the largest amount.

Niger, for example, is the poorest country in the world.

How would it not find its way to the poorest regions of the earth?

The richest is that of Girgenti, with 6304, and the poorest that of Porto Maurizio, with only 246.

Berlin, until the last half of the 19th century, was in respect of its churches probably the poorest of the capitals -of Christendom, and the number of worshippers on an average Sunday was then less than 2% of the population.

The grain is very small, and is gathered for consumption only by the poorest.

For a long time Chile was considered one of the poorest states of Spanish America, but the acquisition of the rich mineralproducing provinces of the north, together with the development of new silver and copper mines in Atacama and Coquimbo, largely increased her revenues and enabled her to develop other important resources.

The common, yet excellent melons, watermelons, grapes, apricots, cherries, plums, apples, are within the reach of the poorest.

George seemed to think his obligation sufficiently discharged by appointing Butler in 1738 to the bishopric of Bristol, the poorest see in the kingdom.

Here are squalid streets and mean houses typical of the poorest class of inhabitants.

He propounds as the comprehensive formula of the new Christianity this precept - "The whole of society ought to strive towards the amelioration of the moral and physical existence of the poorest class; society ought to organize itself in the way best adapted for attaining this end."

The lambs are weaned towards the end of June and the ewes run on the poorest pasture till August to lose surplus fat.

The last poll-tax had been carefully graduated on a sliding scale so as to press lightlyon the poorest classes; in this one a shilling for each person had to be exacted from every township, though it was provided that the strong should help the weak to a certain extent.

But in hundreds of villages there were no strong residents, and the poorest cottager had to pay his three groats.

In spite of much excellence of intention, much heroism, much energy, it is hardly to be denied that the leaders whom that movement brought to the surface were almost without exception men of the poorest political capacity.

These excellent novels were, however, succeeded by one very inferior, The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829); by The Notions of a Travelling Bachelor (1828), an uninteresting book; and by The Waterwitch (1830), one of the poorest of his many sea-stories.

The new dynasty was thus the poorest and weakest of the great civil and ecclesiastical lordships which occupied the country from the estuary of the Scheldt to that of the Liobregat, and bounded approximately by the Meuse, the Sane and the ridge of the Cvennes; yet it cherished a great ambition which it revealed at times during its first century (987Ifo8)a determination not to repeat the Carolingian failure.

They are often incredulous at the sums that the poorest children and pensioners have received.

A series of Cuban-style literacy drives and free neighborhood health clinics run by Cuban doctors were launched in the poorest barrios.

At stake, says the colonel, are the government's plans to develop the country's biggest and poorest province.

Although pins were used in quantity, pin sellers were among the poorest street criers.

These practices also serve to empower and lend dignity to the poorest, while at the same time contributing to a sense of community.

This vast region is the poorest in Brazil and suffers from severe and recurring drought.

Italy, the poorest of the great capitalist nations first became fascist.

This causes further indebtedness which is particularly unsustainable for the poorest countries.

In our increasingly interconnected world Europe's peoples have a moral duty to the world's poorest nations.

But the poorest of the poor, especially landless women, remain untouched and ignored.

If we want more localism we need to tackle the plight of our poorest areas.

Moreover, some popular funds have created village banks to grant small loans to the poorest women who can not mobilize preliminary savings.

Life is but momentary, whether you have the poverty of the poorest man in rags or the wealth of the richest living person.

In 1891 Lenin passed his Law exam with high honors, whereupon he took to representing the poorest peasantry in Samara.

More than 40% of these deaths took place in the poorest regions of Peru where the indigenous populations are concentrated.

Of our US$ 8 billion fuel subsidy in 2004, only 8.5 percent of this amount ever reached the poorest quintile.

Such a revision will mean the poorest countries will remain subservient.

Mill Street also included a complex of crowded and dilapidated tenements offering accommodation to the poorest in society (Trinder 1982, 9 ).

Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney.

Between the "Cotton Belt" and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the "Old Land" area - "a region of resistant rocks" - whose soils, also derived from weathering in situ, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

Planting themselves, as a rule, in large towns, and by preference in the poorest and most densely populated districts, the Preaching Friars were obliged to adapt their buildings to the requirements of the site.

Roughly speaking, if you look at the poorest forty nations in the world, who have an average income per person of about $1,500 a year, their effective tax rates are about 20 percent.

One day, a tornado comes, lifts up your trailer with everyone in it, flies it around the world to the poorest nation on earth, and drops it in the middle of the village.

As the poorest nations become wealthier, they too will grow less and less inclined toward war.

Around the world, more than a billion mobile devices that both take and send photographs are currently in use, spread even to the poorest parts of the globe.

If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be poorer than the poorest beggar.

Reordering priorities, untying aid and pooling funds internationally could all release additional funds for the poorest countries.

The levels of qualifications in numeracy and literacy of residents of the boro are among the poorest in the country.

However, most people in the country, and almost all the poorest, depend on smallholder agriculture for their livelihoods.

Thousands of the world 's poorest people depend on global supply chains to survive.

Traditional measures of social class tend to underplay the extent to which smoking has become concentrated in the poorest sections of society.

Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London 's poorest boroughs, Hackney.