Thesaurus / beggar
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He's a lucky beggar, Reginald, a very lucky beggar, and Warrender's daughter is more than he deserves.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
A beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?
Valence 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. MURISON
If God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for galloping to Monte Carlo?
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
And 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 CRUIKSHANK
In Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELL
The 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'RELL
I 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 STEVENSON
You have had the impudence to have your bread baked under the ashes, you scurvy beggar!
A Dutchman—what you would call a Swede—a hulking beggar, came up from the fo'c'sle very much the worse for wear.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKE
WORDS RELATED TO BEGGAR
- bankrupt
- beggar
- botch
- break
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- bust
- clean out
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- devour
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- do in
- drain
- exhaust
- fleece
- impoverish
- injure
- lay waste
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pillage
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- sack
- shatter
- smash
- spoil
- spoliate
- total
- use up
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.