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  • 91badly off — Synonyms and related words: depressed, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, evil starred, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, hapless, hard up, ill off, ill starred, impecunious, in Queer Street, in adverse… …

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  • 92distressed — Synonyms and related words: abashed, afflicted, agitated, agonized, annoyed, anxious, badly off, beset, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, confused, convulsed, crucified, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted,… …

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  • 93embarrassed — Synonyms and related words: abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, annoyed, anxious, ashamed, astray, at sea, badly off, balled up, beset, bewildered, blushful, blushing, bothered, broke, burdened with debt, cast down, chagrined, chaotic,… …

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  • 94hard up — Synonyms and related words: badly off, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard pressed, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, in narrow circumstances, in… …

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  • 95ill-off — Synonyms and related words: badly off, bare handed, beggarly, depressed, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, empty handed, evil starred, famished, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, half starved, hapless,… …

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  • 96impecunious — Synonyms and related words: badly off, destitute, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, in Queer Street, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, land poor, narrow,… …

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  • 97in a bind — Synonyms and related words: arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, blocked, delayed, delayed action, detained, held up, hung up, in Dutch, in a fix, in a mess, in a pickle, in a predicament, in a scrape, in a spot, in abeyance, in deep… …

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  • 98insolvent — Synonyms and related words: bankrupt, broke, broken, busted, destitute, down and out, failed, failure, fortuneless, homeless, impoverished, in Queer Street, in receivership, in the gutter, in the red, indebted, insolvent debtor, lame duck,… …

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  • 99narrow — Synonyms and related words: Lenten, Quakerish, Spartan, Victorian, abate, abbreviate, abstemious, accented, accurate, adjust to, alter, alveolar, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental …

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  • 100on the spot — Synonyms and related words: PDQ, aboard, among us, apace, as of now, as things are, at once, at present, at this juncture, at this moment, at this point, at this time, between two fires, but now, cornered, cursory, decisively, directly,… …

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