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    poorness example sentences

    poorness


    1. The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another


    2. What architect now thinks of correcting the poorness of hard, straight lines by very slightly curving them? Or of slightly sloping inwards the columns of his facade to add to the strength of its appearance? The amount of these variations is of the very slightest and bears witness to the pitch of refinement attempted


    3. Then she tried to move him, and, growing moved herself, she began telling him about the poorness of her home, her worries, her wants


    4. Of hatred, half concealed or concealed not at all, this is not the place to speak; and indeed the little I have seen of it about the world was tainted with stupidity and seemed to confess in its very violence the extreme poorness of its case


    5. number—On the lapse of time as estimated by years—On the poorness of


    6. ON THE POORNESS OF PALAEONTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS


    7. In consequence of the poorness of the feeling they contain, the melodies of the modern composers are amazingly empty and insignificant


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    Synonyms for "poorness"

    poorness exiguity leanness meagerness meagreness scantiness scantness impoverishment poverty

    "poorness" definitions

    the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions


    less than adequate


    the quality of being meager


    the quality of being poorly made or maintained