bare cupboard
bare subsistence
beggarliness
beggary
deprivation
destitution
empty purse
grinding poverty
gripe
hand-to-mouth existence
homelessness
impecuniousness
impoverishment
indigence
lack
mendicancy
moneylessness
necessitousness
necessity
need
neediness
pauperization
penury
pinch
poverty
privation
want
poorness
mendicity
alcoholism
bankruptcy
criminality
degeneracy
depravity
drunkenness
gluttony
imbecility
immoderation
impotence
irreligion
lewdness
malnutrition
profligacy
shiftlessness
stagnation
uncleanliness
viciousness
wretchedness