mendicancy

Example Sentences

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One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rhee's truculence is echoed by many Koreans, and for understandable reasons: without the power resources, the fertilizer factories and the iron mines of North Korea, the republic is doomed to economic mendicancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should compile as my contribution to the literature of mendicancy for the following season what I should call The Beggar's Élite Directory.

From The Inventions of the Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick

In both may be seen the scions of great houses reduced to mendicancy, ambitious poverty betaking itself to every mean or disreputable device, the legacy-hunter courting the childless rich with flattery or vicious compliance.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel