About The Word Beggarly
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Beggarly
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What's The Definition Of Beggarly?
[adj] used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt
[adj] marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" Synonyms | Synonyms for Beggarly: mean | poor | stingy | ungenerous Related Terms | Find terms related to Beggarly: abject | abominable | arrant | atrocious | backscratching | bare-handed | base | base-minded | beggared | beneath contempt | bereaved | bereft | bootlicking | cheap | cheesy | common | contemptible | cowering | crawling | cringing | crouching | crummy | debased | degraded | depraved | deprived | despicable | dirty | disadvantaged | disgusting | empty-handed | execrable | famished | fawning | flagrant | flattering | fleeced | footlicking | foul | fulsome | gaudy | ghettoized | gimcracky | grave | gross | groveling | half-starved | hangdog | heinous | ignoble | ill off | ill-equipped | ill-furnished | ill-provided | impoverished | in need | in rags | in want | indigent | ingratiating | little | low | low-down | low-minded | lumpen | mangy | mealymouthed | mean | measly | mendicant | meretricious | miserable | monstrous | necessitous | needy | nefarious | obeisant | obnoxious | obsequious | odious | on bended knee | on relief | on short commons | out at elbows | paltry | parasitic | pathetic | pauperized | petty | pitiable | pitiful | poky | poor | poverty-stricken | prostrate | rank | reptilian | rubbishy | sad | scabby | scrubby | scruffy | scummy | scurvy | scuzzy | shabby | shoddy | shorthanded | small | sniveling | sorry | sponging | squalid | starved | starveling | starving | stripped | sycophantic | timeserving | toadeating | toadying | toadyish | trashy | truckling | trumpery | two-for-a-cent | two-for-a-penny | twopenny | twopenny-halfpenny | underfed | undermanned | undernourished | underprivileged | unfed | unmentionable | unprovided | unreplenished | unsupplied | valueless | vile | worthless | wretched See Also | Beggarly In Webster's Dictionary \Beg"gar*ly\, a.
1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a
beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
contemptible. ``A bankrupt, beggarly fellow.'' --South.
``A beggarly fellowship.'' --Swift. ``Beggarly elements.''
--Gal. iv. 9.
2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs.]
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness
and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying,
flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. --Jer.
Taylor.
\Beg"gar*ly\, adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. |
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