Impecunious:
having very little money:
I first knew him as an impecunious student living in a tiny apartment. [Cambridge Dictionary]
Noted in “Lindsey Graham had a lock on most ludicrous senator — until Josh Hawley pounced,” George F. Will, WaPo:
The geyser of “stimulus” checks approved in March did not stimulate because the money was mostly saved or used to pay down debt. The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl reports that the overall personal-savings rate soared from 8 percent to 32 percent: People are avoiding air travel and restaurants not because they are impecunious but because they are prudent. And the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip notes that “aggregate wages and salaries were just 0.4% lower in November than before the pandemic. Thanks to past stimulus, total income was actually 2% higher.”
Mostly for the title of the article, actually.
