beggar
Example Sentences
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Robbie’s most deliciously debasing scene is when she throws coins on the ground for a desperate beggar — and then that person forces her to watch as he picks them up.
From Los Angeles Times
"You go into the hospital and there's sepsis posters on lifts and walls but if their actual frontline staff can't recognise the symptoms of sepsis, it just beggars belief," said Jane.
From BBC
Baroness May said it "beggars belief" that the Hicks were still having to fight to have the "truth acknowledged" about what had happened to their daughters.
From BBC
"Common people, business owners — even beggars — are now fed up. Justice has been sent into exile."
From Barron's
That England players – including Brook - sat in bars for hours on end, in plain sight of the public and the media, beggars belief.
From BBC
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