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Poor-spirited :: Poor-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.

Overseer :: Overseer (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways..

Foul :: Foul (superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.

Evil :: Evil (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop..

Misthrive :: Misthrive (v. i.) To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous.

Fagend :: Fagend (n.) An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect..

Botchy :: Botchy (a.) Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.

Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate..

Singsong :: Singsong (v. i.) To write poor poetry.

Cr/che :: Cr/che (n.) A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work..

Annates :: Annates (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings..

Poorly :: Poorly (a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt..

Hovel :: Hovel (n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut..

Slum :: Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives..

Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks..

Poorbox :: Poorbox (n.) A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers..

Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil..

Beggar :: Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

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