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?
adjective
Other Word Forms
- beggarliness noun
- unbeggarly adjective
Etymology
Origin of beggarly
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
Yet his salary, small enough, it is true, when we consider the man and his career, was not the beggarly pittance that the same amount would be now.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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