Penniless

After a few months, the duped crook was as good as penniless and fled back to the mainland due to heavy debts.

A perpetually penniless theatrical producer and his pals are rehearsing a play they think will be a huge hit but their mounting hotel bills threaten to overwhelm the enterprise before opening night.

At this time, Ronald's third marriage had just broken up, while the younger Brand was said to be "unemployed, penniless, birdless and desperate for his approval".

Mary Beaumont was penniless when she married the wealthy farmer and bore him four children before his death.

Scapin is known as a schemer and teller of tales and is enlisted to help in the affairs of Octave and Leander as both men have fallen in love with penniless, undesirable mates.

According to Goncharenko, the problem is severe not only because it is “destroying the military morale” on the frontlines, but because soldiers who lose their earnings will become “perfect targets” for the criminal world once they return home penniless.

He even bought his former master’s house in Beaufort, partly funded by the reward for delivering the Confederate ship to Union forces, and let the man’s widow live there after she was left penniless.

He was finally released after 104 days, penniless and without documents.

He wondered why people like him are expected to be penniless while those who have done next to nothing parade themselves as achievers.

Of course, the mega-rich stayed mega-rich – but everyone else was penniless.

Professional matchmaker Louanne Ward has exposed her former lover Mitchell* as a penniless chef who was cheating on his long-term girlfriend with two other women and driving a red Hyundai, which he called 'the Ferrari'.

Titanic follows first-class passenger Rose who finds a love to last a lifetime when she falls for penniless artist Jack just as disaster strikes on a doomed luxury liner.

But in Mogadishu, banking for a near-penniless government in a broken state didn’t mean much.

The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless.

They gave Ms Omirzakh, the penniless wife of a detained vegetable trader, three days to pay a $2,685 (£2,171) fine for having more than two children.

This worked out well for the church but left the now penniless in a lurch.

According to him, the safety and wellbeing of the world’s richest, most powerful country is threatened with utter destruction by penniless Guatemalans.

A Grenadian National Footballer believes that he was victimised while playing for an international team in Lebanon and has returned home penniless.

Cross, originally from Blackburn, signed up in Liverpool at the end of the 1960s where “I’d ended up penniless”, he said.

Short on funds, Jamie went to the bank, only to discover that her husband had depleted the entire balance of their joint account, leaving her penniless.