Poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.
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Beggary
//ˈbɛɡəɹi//
Synonyms for "beggary" (54 found)
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20 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- нищета noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
- просия noun (The fact or action of begging)
Dutch
1 entries- bedelarij noun (The fact or action of begging)
Finnish
1 entries- kerjääminen noun (The fact or action of begging)
Galician
3 entries- mendicidade noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
- mendicidade noun (The fact or action of begging)
- pedicha noun (The fact or action of begging)
Greek
1 entries- ζητιανιά noun (The fact or action of begging)
Irish
1 entries- bacachas noun (The fact or action of begging)
Italian
3 entries- accattonaggio noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
- elemosina noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
- pitoccheria noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
Polish
4 entries- żebractwo noun (The fact or action of begging)
- żebranie noun (The fact or action of begging)
- żebranina noun (The fact or action of begging)
- żebry noun (The fact or action of begging)
Swahili
1 entries- ufukara noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
Swedish
3 entries- armod noun (The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty)
- bettleri noun (The fact or action of begging)
- tiggeri noun (The fact or action of begging)
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11 total sentences available.
Happily some haplesse man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary.
Source: wiktionary
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary.
Source: wiktionary
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128, […] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]
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