Poor and Textbook

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Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.

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Textbook is an antonym for poor.

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

Textbook adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

Usage example: a textbook example of a film that captures the feel of the novel on which it is based

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Poor is an antonym for textbook.

And poor Cyclops thinks that the lovely Bellflower has a crush on him because of the scribblings in her textbook, but she actually borrowed the textbook... from Football Captain.

Source: Film / Dasepo Sonyo
Congo is a textbook example of a great game hobbled by a poor license.

Source: Sugar Wiki / No Problem with Licensed Games
Cue her poor husband searching high and low for a ripe pineapple and eventually taking one from the First Consul's greenhouses... And in a textbook example of the trope, it turned out that Laure could not even stand the sight or smell of the fruit.

Source: Wacky Cravings

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