piss-poor

Definitions

Examples

• Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

• If so, he has his silence -- on top of poor judgment -- to blame.

• But most likely it was linked to the way priests identify with the poor in the face of government and criminal abuses.

• What they actually mean by that is, you know, he actually knows some people that are poor.

• For those living in poor communities in particular, interactions with police rarely come with good news and a smile.

• Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

• He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!

• In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.

• The poor must look to the brightness of a future world for the consolation that they were denied in this.

• Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.