Antonym: richness. Similar words: over there, all over the world, over and over, property, advert, over, convert, cover. Meaning: ['pɑvə(r)tɪ /'pɒ-] n. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
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181. We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other.
182. Many leading charities have contributed to the debate on world poverty.
183. Government claims that there is no poverty are belied by the number of homeless people on the streets.
184. Despite his poverty, he refused to part with the family jewels.
185. There is endemic racism/poverty/violence in many of the country's cities.
186. The government is not simply relying on trickle-down economics to tackle poverty.
187. They envision an equal society, free of poverty and disease.
188. It's easy to be concerned with problems across the other side of the world and not see the poverty and unhappiness on your own doorstep.
189. In the past, the majority of women were consigned to a lifetime of servitude and poverty.
190. We need to take positive steps to improve the situation of families in poverty.
191. A new report has turned the spotlight on the problem of poverty in the inner cities.
192. The continuation of the strike caused a lot of poverty.
193. An enormous number of people live in conditions of severe poverty.
194. Poverty is primarily a cause of illness and only secondarily its effect.
195. Extreme poverty had reduced them to a state of apathy.
196. There are some areas of poverty,(http://sentencedict.com/poverty.html) but the country as a whole is fairly prosperous.
197. Poverty is one of the greatest social evils of our time.
198. She held the family together through years of unrelieved poverty.
199. Crime does not necessarily go with poverty, some rich men are criminals.
200. The rest of the world struggles on with its perpetual problems, poverty and debt.
201. He asked how committed the leadership was to liberating its people from poverty.
202. Politicians tried to dress up the bill as a bold new strategy for combatting poverty.
203. Starvation and poverty are the result of global economic exploitation, not lack of resources.
204. I tackled him about how anyone could live amidst so much poverty.
205. These figures obscure the fact that a lot of older people live in great poverty.
206. He's caught in the poverty trap and will only be five pounds a week better off if he accepts the job.
207. The report on world poverty calls for urgent action from Western governments.
208. The new government came to power under the banner of fighting poverty.
209. He argues that one of the root causes of crime is poverty.
210. One cause of the artist's suicide seems to have been chronic poverty.
More similar words: over there, all over the world, over and over, property, advert, over, convert, cover, vertical, overall, get over, oversee, all over, be over, go over, governor, lay over, run over, proverb, uncover, hand over, cover up, recover, recovery, take over, make over, overlook, coverage, talk over, blow over.