Lack-all
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lack-all is a noun meaning One who has nothing; a destitute person.
Meaning
One who has nothing; a destitute person.
Example Sentences
Thus feel both the labourers and the lack-alls who do not labour, and partly both have a just grievance and a true quarrel against society.
To these outcast soldiers of his, unregimented roving banditti for the present, or unworking workhouse prisoners who are almost uglier than banditti; to these floods of Irish Beggars, Able-bodied Paupers, and nomadic Lackalls, now stagnating or roaming everywhere, drowning the face of the world (too truly) into an untenantable swamp and Stygian quagmire, has the Chief Governor of this country no word whatever to say?
Word Forms
- lack-alls
- lackall
Synonyms for lack-all
Depending on context, synonyms include pauper.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lackall, lacker, lacklessness, emptyhandedness, zero, lacke.
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