Beggarly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BEGGARLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
ADJECTIVE:
• like a beggar, very poor
• pitifully or deplorably meagre or bad
• poverty-stricken; very poor
• meanly inadequate
• In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
• Produced or occasioned by beggary.
• marked by poverty befitting a beggar
• (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

Words related to BEGGARLY

beggarliness16 beggarlier14 beggarliest15

How to use BEGGARLY in a sentence

• Maiden, if thou dost rather choose a beggarly minstrel than a high-born knight, take thy choice.
• Life was not to be lived in a beggarly and ignoble compromise.
• No danger is there of sons or daughters being obliged to quit their homes and roam over foreign lands for a precarious and beggarly subsistence.
• The bazaars are less beggarly than those at Ravandus, the chan is large and comfortable.
• It was a matter of talk among the neighbouring tradesmen that the chemist lived in a beggarly fashion.
• Are ye not two beggarly retainers, trencher-parasites, to John? I think ye rank above his footmen.
• I forgot to say that if you write this beggarly devil, Hickman, a sharp letter for money, he may probably save you the trouble of turning him out.
• That argument has for its ground-work beggarly assumptions and for its main pillar, reasoning no less beggarly.
• Certain it is that I had but a half crop of turnips and a beggarly batch of beets to comfort me and the hogs.
• Phalante is a beggarly bankrupt, who thinks himself as rich as Croesus.
• Jack would stay a whole night upon the heath, and come home with an empty pocket or a beggarly half crown.
• But, as you may guess, near the Court of a beggar Dauphin the country-folk too were sour and beggarly.
• They very properly refused to continue any longer in bondage to the beggarly elements of a ritual which had long since been superseded.
• O, a silly, beggarly glory is this! Naked thou came into the world, and naked thou must go out of it again.
• So long as he stays in Quito he will not lose sight of the contrast between big promise and beggarly performance.
• See how Cramley takes the whole breast of the turkey on his plate, and how many times Jenkins sends away his beggarly half-pint of sherry! Clubbery is organised egotism.
• Yet such an isolated act is surely a carnal and beggarly fulfilment.
• Finally, when I had spent my last cent for a beggarly meal, I saw an advertisement for a teacher in the reform school, and called on a Mr.
• My friend Father Simon, and I, used to be very merry upon these occasions, to see the beggarly pride of those people.
• The tattered leaves then dry up and the whole of the tree presents the most beggarly aspect imaginable.
• Who wants his beggarly allowance! He can do as he likes about his own money.
• Take the advice of your new friend here, and cut off my beggarly monthly allowance, too.
• But the streets of the town itself are, as usual, dirty and narrow, and the people of the lower orders more than commonly ragged and beggarly.
• The aspect of the fields to the north of Somers-Town, between that beggarly suburb and Kentish-Town, has been totally changed of late.
• A few beggarly Indians, renegades from the Kiowas and Comanches on the west, annoyed us for the first week, but were easily appeased with a lame or stray beef.
• All this was beggarly toil for a man of genius, but Diderot never took the trouble to think of himself as a man of genius, and was quite content with life as it came.
• That argument has for its ground-work beggarly assumption, and for its main pillar, reasoning no less beggarly.
• She visits the poor with her sister, and gives charities, but she will have no beggarly tricks, and can pick out a hypocrite at his first whining, howsoever clever he may be.
• And the beggarly pittance for which one class of women work becomes the standard of wages for all women, and throws them out upon the world, there to find a sure market.

Similar words containing BEGGAR without suffix ly

beggar10 beggars11 beggary14 beggared13 beggardom16 beggaries13 beggaring14 beggardoms17 beggarhood18 beggarweed18 beggarlier14 beggarhoods19 beggarweeds19 beggarliest15 beggarliness16 beggarlinesses18

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