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mendicant
noun as in beggar
Strong matches
Example Sentences
He has been on intimate terms with czar and serf, he has met millionaire and mendicant, he has hobnobbed with prince and pauper.
In a way of speaking, this mendicant of Coney Island was perhaps of this class.
They probably despised her already; how much more they would despise her in the character of a mendicant!
I must go there, if I clothe myself in the rags of a mendicant lama and beg my way from one black tent to another.
In a few days the town of Brussels swarmed with ash-gray garments such as were usually worn by mendicant friars and penitents.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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