Synonyms for beggarly
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : beg-er-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛg ər li |
Définition of beggarly
Origin :- 1520s, from beggar (n.) + -ly (1).
- adj poor
- The dog too went: the most noble-looking item in the beggarly assets.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- I'd be sorry to like it; a dirty, beggarly, sickly place as I ever saw!
- Extract from : « The Midnight Queen » by May Agnes Fleming
- But, Sir, these be nought save a parcel of beggarly craftsmen.
- Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
- And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste.
- Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I say, down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- She pointed to the bare walls, the broken furniture, their beggarly attire.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various
- I say down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- You ran—you turned and ran to save your beggarly life—coward!
- Extract from : « The Kopje Garrison » by George Manville Fenn
- O, the boy, a bare-legg'd beggarly son of a gun, For one-and-fourpence.
- Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various
- Confound him and his beggarly high cheek-bones, and his Caledonian pock-pits.
- Extract from : « Acadia » by Frederic S. Cozzens
Antonyms for beggarly
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