unprosperous (?.)
- badly off
- broke
- depressed
- destitute
- dire
- distressed
- donsie
- doomful
- down to bedrock
- embarrassed
- evil-starred
- fatal
- feeling the pinch
- fortuneless
- funest
- hapless
- hard up
- ill off
- ill-starred
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in Queer Street
- in adverse circumstances
- in narrow circumstances
- in reduced circumstances
- in straitened circumstances
- inauspicious
- indigent
- land-poor
- low
- luckless
- narrow
- needy
- ominous
- on the edge
- out of luck
- out of pocket
- pinched
- planet-struck
- poor
- poorly off
- reduced
- sad
- short
- short of cash
- short of funds
- short of luck
- short of money
- squeezed
- star-crossed
- straitened
- strapped
- unblessed
- underprivileged
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unmoneyed
- unprovidential