Destitute in a sentence as an adjective

The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside .

Your suggestion that we shouldn't empathize with any victims of theft if they're not destitute is fatuous and offensive.

Now they have Whole Foods quality vegetables in the middle of a destitute area for cheap, and it services the community.

The 9/11 hijackers were educated as engineers, living well in Europe not in destitute poverty.

But the prospect of the business failing and leaving me destitute and without access to healthcare, for example, were not really possible.

Rather than seeing them all as a destitute scourge waiting to pray on the unsuspecting, which is more likely to happen when you deliberately make their lives worse.

If someone is literally starving to death, let them eat the farmer's food; that is the price civilization pays for the truly destitute not to overthrow the system.

I am hoping this is satire and you aren't seriously arguing that "prisons have to be barbaric otherwise the homeless and the destitute would use them to avoid starvation".

A large majority of people that are persistently 'homeless' in the US, by which I mean completely destitute and sleeping outside, have serious mental disease AND/OR are alcoholics, AND/OR are addicts.

As an insurance, a statistical loss is expected, but it provides a guarantee, in this case that when you are old you will never be destitute, living on the street eating catfood, or cats and rats when you can catch them.

In fact, when people argue that, it seems like the source often isn't "you could have given that money to the poor/destitute" so much as it is "I don't like that you're doing [x] instead of [y]"; or, "I don't like that this money can be saved up for cause [x] and not for cause [y]".

Destitute definitions

adjective

poor enough to need help from others

See also: impoverished indigent necessitous needy poverty-stricken

adjective

completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

See also: barren devoid free innocent