beggarly

Example Sentences

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Unsure whether he had been duped, he sent Francis a beggarly email: “I was wondering if you have reached a decision on my Shedd Bailout/Rescue Loan proposal.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2018

Among his several schemes to gain influence over the boy king, Seymour began supplying him with pocket money, telling him "you are a beggarly king, you have no money to play or to give".

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2012

He pursues the beggarly Poor Tom with a rabid curiosity eagerly inquiring "What hast thou been?" yet, imagining Goneril on trial, he spits at her shadow with undisguised hatred.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010

It would be beggarly to call what Scofield does a performance; it is an incarnation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The comfortless contrast between colossal wealth and beggarly want could only be thereby increased, since it is almost exclusively the lower middle class who emigrate to agricultural colonies.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm