beggarly
adjective
like or befitting a beggar.
beggarliness
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a word derived from
beggarly.
Example Sentences
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But, asks the English tourist impressed by the apparent beggarliness of all he sees, how could the tenant procure a quarter of the money?
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
They all subserve human greed, cowardice, viciousness, servility, legitimised sensuality, laziness-beggarliness!—yes, that is the real word!—human beggarliness.
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
He saw quite clearly that this little detail made the beggarliness of his clothes even more noticeable.
From Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois
In fact, in matters of this kind, a man in foreign countries, and especially in the military and naval service of his country, should recollect the effect of this beggarliness on the mind of strangers.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
