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beggarly

adjective as in poor

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Example Sentences

I did find that there were foundations that made you feel small and beggarly when asking for support, but Carnegie, under Vartan, was not one of them.

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I say, down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.

Imagine a beggarly girl in an office daring to address such criticism to the great Mr. Lang!

And turning to the man confronting me, he added, "This gentleman will settle their beggarly accounts."

The money he saves in his damned beggarly court goes to buy men's souls.

Why should ladies demean themselves by going amongst dirty beggarly folk?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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