destitute
/ˈdɛstɪtuːt/ adjetivo C2En español: indigente, destituido, desprovisto, no tener donde caerse muerto
- Lacking something; devoid.
- Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so. · Near-synonym: penniless· May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag
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“Sire,” said Blacas, who had for a moment the hope of sacrificing Villefort to his own profit, “I am compelled to tell you that these are not mere rumors destitute of foundation which thus disquiet me; but a serious-minded man, deserving all my confidence, and charged by me to watch over the south” (the duke hesitated as he pronounced these words), “has arrived by post to tell me that a great peril threatens the king, and so I hastened to you, sire.”
“Well, that tends to confirm my own ideas,” said Franz, “that the countess’s suspicions were destitute alike of sense and reason.
“Why, when I found myself utterly destitute, I thought my old friends would, perhaps, assist me.
“You are very kind, sir, I am sure; and I wish with all my heart it may prove so; for else they will be destitute enough.
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