Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not having money; not possessed of wealth: as, the unmoneyed classes. Also
unmonied .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of money; not rich.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
moneyed ;poor .
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Examples
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I am very well aware (having had the benefit of a year's experience of your character and temperament) that you have very little respect for unmoneyed people and are contemptuous of their ability to interfere with the moneyed.
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Had he been simply an enthusiast, that fatal false logic that _will_ track enthusiasm -- however it be guided -- would have betrayed him: but the man was not an enthusiast -- he was a great actor; and while to capitalists and speculators he appealed by all the seductive inducements of profits, premiums, and preference shares, to the outer and unmoneyed world he made his approaches by a beautiful and touching philanthropy.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839
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He almost invariably writes about the unmoneyed, the unfashionable, the desperate and the disturbed, and sets his plays in low-rent or squalid climes.
NYT > Home Page By CHARLES ISHERWOOD 2011
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He almost invariably writes about the unmoneyed, the unfashionable, the desperate and the disturbed, and sets his plays in low-rent or squalid climes.
NYT > Home Page By CHARLES ISHERWOOD 2011
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Money, Kellogg believed, should be spent on improving the lot of the unmoneyed.
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