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  • 121NASHE, Thomas — (1567 c. 1601) Young Juvenal, as Thomas Nashe s friends called him, was a satirist who shocked and delighted literary London with his polemical tracts, pamphlets, extravaganzas, comedies, literary criticism, and descriptive pieces. Born into a… …

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  • 122bankrupt — Synonyms and related words: almsman, almswoman, also ran, ausgespielt, bankrupt in, bare, bare of, beggar, bereft of, blasted, blighted, break, broke, broken, bust, busted, casual, charity case, denudate, denude, denuded of, deprive, deprived of …

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  • 123indigent — Synonyms and related words: almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, beggar, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, casual, charity case, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down and out, down and outer, flat broke, fleeced, ghettoized, hard up, hardcase,… …

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  • 124bankrupt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insolvent, ruined; bereft, indigent, penniless, destitute, broke (sl.). v. impoverish; pauperize. See debt, poverty, failure. Ant., solvent, flush. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. failed, out of… …

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  • 125down-and-out — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. needy, destitute, poor, on the skids. See poverty.Ant., well off, on easy street. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. broke, penniless, bankrupt, destitute, impoverished, *in the poorhouse, *on the… …

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  • 126indigent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. poor, poverty stricken (see poverty).Ant., wealthy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. needy, impoverished, poverty stricken; see poor 1 . See Synonym Study at poor . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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  • 127poor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indigent (see poverty); inferior, faulty, unsatisfactory, imperfect, defective; humble; weak, flimsy. See insufficiency, imperfection, disease.Ant., rich, wealthy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking …

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  • 128impoverished — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. poverty stricken, bankrupt, broke*; see insolvent , poor 1 , ruined 4 . See Synonym Study at poor . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. poor, destitute, poverty stricken, indigent, penniless, impecunious, ruined, needy,… …

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