destitution

As he notes, these benefits are key to countless families who would otherwise fall into destitution.

Now she just wants the neo homeless to get back under a roof before they become acclimated to destitution.

Artemis Stefanoudaki, a 38-year-old photographer, lives on the razor-thin margin between poverty and destitution.

The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.

Although bordering on the lowest state of destitution—and that is a remarkably low state in London!

From every rank in society they had gravitated—but all were stamped with the same brand—destitution!

All that was pitiable and miserable in the land, sunken alike by ignorance and destitution.

An interesting feature of this case is the vagueness of the term "in need of relief," instead of "destitution."