beggar
Example Sentences
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“It kind of beggars credulity that that number of complaints could be raised and that none could be substantiated,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times
"Having been in a video in such tragic circumstances, it's beggars belief why people want to do that," she said.
From BBC
"I see more and more beggars in town as people are starving. People have no jobs and so the election seems like a distant prospect. They have no time to be interested in it."
From Barron's
King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”
From Los Angeles Times
A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
