Sentence examples for skint from inspiring English sources

"skint" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is very poor or short of money. Example sentence: After losing his job, he quickly became skint and had to start borrowing from his family.

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skint

adjective

Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.

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But Liam, Bonehead, Guigsy and Tony should remember that, skint as they may be, they have a legacy.

"Even if you were out of work or skint you could sit out somewhere in a park for instance and at least it would be free.

We were really skint, but we're a tight-knit family who cared for each other and pushed each other.

Who can't see the difference between any of the governments this country has had, and who has clearly never actually been so skint that the difference between one administration and another is the difference between feeding your kids or everyone going hungry.

Because you know what it is to be skint and to live with the anxieties of that in your life.

But they are unlikely be major, because Greece is skint and it wants to stay in the euro.

But the row over the first series is making it harder for documentary-makers to return to the same theme, with Grimsby residents also opposing the filming of a second series of the Channel 4 documentary Skint.

Noel has made clear in the past that he'd only reform the band if he was "skint".

Even if Mexico is a neighbour, polling suggests that Americans are in an isolationist mood, perhaps because they are war-weary or skint.

Some of the cheapest massage parlours, such as Club 25 in Sheffield (the price is in the name), attractive to the skint, are busy.

The second attraction is that, at a time when the exchequer is skint, the policies involved seem mercifully cheap.

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