beggarly
Americanadjective
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like or befitting a beggar.
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meanly inadequate.
How does he manage on such a beggarly salary?
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Example Sentences
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Unsure whether he had been duped, he sent Francis a beggarly email: “I was wondering if you have reached a decision on my Shedd Bailout/Rescue Loan proposal.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2018
Among his several schemes to gain influence over the boy king, Seymour began supplying him with pocket money, telling him "you are a beggarly king, you have no money to play or to give".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2012
He pursues the beggarly Poor Tom with a rabid curiosity eagerly inquiring "What hast thou been?" yet, imagining Goneril on trial, he spits at her shadow with undisguised hatred.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2010
It would be beggarly to call what Scofield does a performance; it is an incarnation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But how could people like Marguerite and D'Orsay keep abreast of the social current on a beggarly twelve-thousand-five-hundred dollars a year?
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
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