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

"But this I know: 'tis the part of a faithful servant to keep her master from being preyed on by his beggarly kin."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles