Beggarly

Synonyms for "beggarly" (163 found)

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Closest matches (33)

Strong matches (49)

Related words (81)

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More general

6 entries
economic conditionlinguistic usagequalityquantitysocioeconomic statustone

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Collocations

5 entries
beggarly appearancebeggarly conditionsbeggarly livingbeggarly povertybeggarly wages

Inflections

2 entries
more beggarlymost beggarly

Derivations

2 entries
begary?beggary

similar

3 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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Ask your own conscience, Sir William, what has prompted you to become a renegade to your political party and opinions, and led you, for what I know, to be on the point of marrying your only daughter to a beggarly Jacobite bankrupt, the inveterate enemy of your family to the boot.

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beggarly fellow

Source: wiktionary

beggarly rags

Source: wiktionary

Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.

Source: wiktionary

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