Antonyms for well-to-do:
adj. well-off
Examples of uses:
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
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Title: The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3), author: Charles James Wills, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42167/42167-h/42167-h.htm
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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Title: The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3), author: Charles James Wills, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42167/42167-h/42167-h.htm
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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Title: Gulliver's Travels, author: Jonathan Swift, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17157/17157-h/17157-h.htm
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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Title: Ramona, author: Helen Hunt Jackson, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2802/2802-h/2802-h.htm
Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
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Title: Davy and The Goblin, author: Charles E. Carryl, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25031/25031-h/25031-h.htm
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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Title: The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3), author: Charles James Wills, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42167/42167-h/42167-h.htm
They ranged from moving trunks to cleaning cisterns, and, by grace of all of them, Sim was doing very well.
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Title: The Bondboy, author: George W. (George Washington) Ogden, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30567/30567-h/30567-h.htm
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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Title: The Salvaging Of Civilisation, author: H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33889/33889-h/33889-h.htm
The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.
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Title: Checkmate, author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38460/38460-h/38460-h.htm
All our people were well mounted, and armed with rifles, pistols, and bowie-knives.
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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV., author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13306/13306-h/13306-h.htm
