Thesaurus / beggar
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synonyms for beggar
- vagrant
- bankrupt
- dependent
- down-and-out
- guttersnipe
- mendicant
- pauper
- suppliant
- alms person
- indigent
- poor person
- poverty-stricken person
- street person
- ward of state
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They’re endearing, dopey, shameless beggars who can appease even the most cantankerous souls.
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THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSA beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSValence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONIf God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for galloping to Monte Carlo?
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDAnd on the same authority we find that there is the ghost of dirt, for the ghost of the old beggar-man was "dirty."
SECOND EDITION OF A DISCOVERY CONCERNING GHOSTSGEORGE CRUIKSHANKIn Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLThe beggar reciting the Bible to fill his pocket is very well; but he does not come up to the preaching street arab.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLI am afraid,' said he, 'that monsieur will think me altogether a beggar; but I have another demand to make upon him.'
THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWORDS RELATED TO BEGGAR
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