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• n  a state without friends or money or prospects

• Several million people need food aid, millions more have fled, and an outbreak of cholera that sure mark of destitution has killed close to 5,000 and infected 20 times that .
• Yet he was also deeply moved by South Korea's destitution.
• Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.

News & Articles

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• How The Other Half Lives: In Neill Blomkamp’s Energetic Blockbuster, The 1 Percent Has High-Tailed It To Space
  Matt Damon gets ready to kick some ass in Elysium Earth, in Neill Blomkamp’s new science- fiction thriller Elysium , set in 2154, is one big wretched slum: arid, diseased, dangerous and overcrowded. There is little hope for its denizens, though at least all are equal in their own miserable destitution. Until they look up. Their poverty is thrown into sharp relief by a giant orbital space station ...
  Aug. 6, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Saddam Hussein in USA Today
  I have saved you from destitution and misery and destroyed your enemies, the Persian and Americans,Saddam responded, al-Rubaie told the Times.
• Fakhruddin Ahmed in Reuters
  As many as eight million face the bleak prospect of destitution,Fakhruddin Ahmed, the head of Bangladesh's interim government, told donors on Monday.
• Rowan Williams in The Age
  The project was "working to deepen the confidence and the hope of those living in the middle of some of the worst destitution even Zimbabwe can show. Signs of salvation; not a magical restoration of the golden age, but the stubborn insistence that...