Sentence examples for plain poor from inspiring English sources

We would rather be time-poor than plain poor.

Simplicity is an art form, impenetrability is plain (or not so plain) poor writing.

The former are just plain poor; the latter need to be "battle-axes".

Neglected by successive central governments, bereft of factories, seized with corruption and rife with nepotism, Sidi Bouzid and the small towns surrounding it are filled with idle young men, jobless, underemployed or just plain poor.

Instead, a combination of exuberant spending during the flush years of 2000 and 2001, and a surprise shortfall in tax payments from the state and county last year -- plus plain poor planning -- has landed Jonesville in this deep hole.

And I have started to see how much Charlotte owes to her little sister Anne, who got there first with her portrayal of a plain, poor governess, in Agnes Grey.

Charlotte Brontë wrote about what it meant to be plain and poor, yet clever and sensitive.

Now gentrifying around the edges, then it was a morass of the mentally ill, addicts, sex workers, drug dealers and the just plain homeless poor.

Clemmie Sveaas's unbalanced (yup, again) pregnant auditionee, the neurotic singers - 'I'm so fat and plain and poor, and what's more, I suck...'. - and, above all, Thomas's manic lyrics, which are like Sondheim rewritten by Gordon Ramsay and Jordan.

The book doesn't shy away from topics that might be conceived as sad or cruel; the description of the plain and poor Winifred exposes the superficial discrimination that still dogs women to this day.

She's too poor, plain and disconnected.