poverty-ridden vs skint

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

skint

adj
  • Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. 

  • skinned 

How often have the words poverty-ridden and skint occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )