Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

bieda in English:

1. poverty poverty


Poverty does more to bring out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the world.
The issue of Third World poverty is very pressing.
The affluence of the United States is often contrasted with the poverty of undeveloped countries.
born into poverty
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
Gold gives an air of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
Campaigns against poverty tend to focus on the rural poor.
Brazil's economy had seen several years of strong growth that pulled millions of people out of poverty.
But the Nobel Committee said that poverty was a threat to world peace, and Mother Teresa worked against poverty.
Lander assumes that rioting and gang behavior are a result of poverty and poor economic conditions.
He fiercely criticised the rampant poverty of Victorian England
In contrast, some people argue that it is wrong to pay sports stars these huge amounts of money when there is so much poverty in the world.
Now, after his conversation with the girl from the next room, he understood what real poverty was.
homeless | jobless. What is poverty? — Poverty is not just a lack of money. It's about a lack of hope.
Condition where people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. Poverty is generally of two types: absolute poverty and relative poverty

English word "bieda"(poverty) occurs in sets:

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2. mischief


Boys are fond of mischief.
The incident caused a great deal of political mischief.
The little boy got into mischief when he was left alone.
A child's mischief often causes a fire.
You think that people are okay, but I allow one to think that people and all societies are bad. No one wants other people to tolerate their mischief. People give grief to people because their viewpoints vary.
Alcohol has done great mischief to his body.
Thoughtless speech may give rise to great mischief.
Mischief is common to most children.
Someone's bloody well making mischief.
from harmless mischief to more serious abuse
He was looking back at them with mischief in his eyes.
We'll never know what mischief dad was up to.
‘Don’t get up to too much mischief.’
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.

English word "bieda"(mischief) occurs in sets:

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3. penury


these people live in penury
tales of penury from several well-known writers

English word "bieda"(penury) occurs in sets:

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