noun
- extreme poverty; destitution.
“He had hoped that the judge or other litigants would have, if not compassion for his condition, at least an acknowledgment of the reality of his abject penury. Alas, his hopes went unrealized. ‘Fascists,’ he thought dismissively, but spent the rest of the afternoon imagining what all their heads would look like on sticks.”
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