destitute
de stuh tooht
- s poor enough to need help from others
- s completely wanting or lacking
young recruits destitute of experience
- Young recruits, destitute of experience, were thrown into the battle.
- In fighting for the dignity of the destitute in a foreign land, she gave the world a moral example that bridged divides of culture, class and religion.
- In 1999 a Native American writer, born fragile and poor on a destitute Indian reservation, published an essay, "The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams," in Esquire.