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" (56 found)
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Noun(1 words)
absencebare cupboardbare subsistencebeggarlinessbeggingbummingcadgingdefectivenessdeficiencydeficitdeprivation
Strong matches (16)
destitutiondroughtempty pursefaminegrinding povertygripehand-to-mouth existencehomelessnessimpecuniousnessimperfectionimpoverishmentincompletenessindigencelack
Noun(2 words)
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11 entriesactbehavioreconomic activityeconomic hardshipindigenceneedpauperismpauperizationpenurypovertysolicitation
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6 entriesCollocations
5 entriesbeggary rateextreme beggaryincidence of beggarystate of beggaryurban beggary
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11 total sentences available.
Happily some haplesse man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary.
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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.
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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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