• a poor blighter, poor blighter, poor devil, wretch
• she has seen better days
• bare, beggarly, mean, miserly, penurious, pitiable, pokey, poky, poor, poorish, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender
• pauper asylum, poorhouse, union
• destitution, necessity, need, pauperization, penury, poverty
• miserliness, scantiness
• maintenance of the poor, relief