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View synonyms for dirt poor
dirt poor
adjective
- lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
dirt-poor
adjective
- extremely poor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dirt poor1
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
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Example Sentences
The family had grown up dirt-poor, sharecropping the 20,000 acres of cotton that stretched out below Sand Mountain.
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They are poor; “dirt poor” is no exaggeration, for their land has been depleted by cotton farming and untilled for seven years.
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“I considered it a gesture of good will because these people are so dirt poor,” said Stidham.
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She had grown up dirt poor in the rural South, and her whole life trajectory had been a kind of fairy tale.
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