sounding as if the nose were pinched; a whining nasal voice

[ Syn: adenoidal , nasal ]

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; emaciated bony hands; a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys; eyes were haggard and cavernous; small pinched faces; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

[ Syn: bony , cadaverous , emaciated , gaunt , haggard , skeletal , wasted ]

not having enough money to pay for necessities

[ Syn: hard up , impecunious , in straitened circumstances , penniless , penurious ]

as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her'