Thesaurus / beggarly
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I did find that there were foundations that made you feel small and beggarly when asking for support, but Carnegie, under Vartan, was not one of them.
IN DREAMS BEGIN RESPONSIBILITIES: THE BOUNTIFUL LIFE OF VARTAN GREGORIANRICHARD STENGELAPRIL 18, 2021TIMEI say, down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.
LAVENGROGEORGE BORROWImagine a beggarly girl in an office daring to address such criticism to the great Mr. Lang!
THE QUIVER 3/1900ANONYMOUSAnd turning to the man confronting me, he added, "This gentleman will settle their beggarly accounts."
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLThe money he saves in his damned beggarly court goes to buy men's souls.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLWhy should ladies demean themselves by going amongst dirty beggarly folk?
THE HAUNTED ROOMA. L. O. E.I traveled over to this hall on the evening of my lecture, and spoke to a beggarly array of empty seats.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. I. FEBRUARY, 1862, NO. II.VARIOUSThe mines should bear the blame of the prevalent faults of the saucy beggars and beggarly grandees of Spain.
HOW TO OBSERVEHARRIET MARTINEAUThither, went scrubbed beggarly Lazarus, &c. Nay, it is prepared for the poor.
THE HEAVENLY FOOTMANJOHN BUNYANEvan heard the words 'beggarly tailor' mumbled 'out of the gutters,' and 'cursed connection.'
EVAN HARRINGTON, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHWORDS RELATED TO BEGGARLY
- abject
- affecting
- afflicted
- arousing
- base
- beggarly
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- commiserative
- compassionate
- contemptible
- deplorable
- despicable
- dismal
- distressed
- distressing
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- inadequate
- insignificant
- joyless
- lamentable
- low
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- sad
- scurvy
- shabby
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stirring
- suffering
- tearful
- touching
- vile
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind the eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- necessitous
- needy
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
- abject
- affecting
- afflicted
- arousing
- base
- beggarly
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- commiserative
- compassionate
- contemptible
- deplorable
- despicable
- dismal
- distressed
- distressing
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- inadequate
- insignificant
- joyless
- lamentable
- low
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- poor
- rueful
- sad
- scurvy
- shabby
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stirring
- suffering
- tearful
- touching
- vile
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
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