beggar

The minister had said there was no such thing as "beggars" in Cuba and people going through rubbish were, in essence, doing so out of choice to make "easy money", as she put it.

But still: For the president of the United States to accuse the government of South Africa, in 2025, of conducting a racial genocide is so craven, so shameless, that beggars any rational description.

It beggars the imagination to see the law used as the administration seeks to use it.

He is best known for a simple but profound act of compassion — sharing his cloak with a freezing beggar on a winter’s night.

Amid the daily storm of sewage and plague of frogs that is Donald Trump's second administration, it’s difficult to say that anything beggars belief.