This was a period defined by impecuniousness; in his 20s he shared a tatty Lower East Side apartment with rodents.

Before and after the New Orleans time not the least of Hearn's misfortunes was his intolerable and brutalizing improvidence and impecuniousness.

There were young men, of varying degrees of attractiveness, station, and impecuniousness, who wanted to marry her.

They offended the fastidious aristocrats with whom he associated, and combined with his impecuniousness to make him seem unsuitable for a great place.

Having seen him anxious from time to time, and suspecting his student's impecuniousness, Maréchal had of his own accord offered and lent him money, a few hundred francs perhaps, forgotten by both, and never repaid.