Crossword clues for beggarly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, a.
In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. ``A bankrupt, beggarly fellow.''
--South. ``A beggarly fellowship.''
--Swift. ``Beggarly elements.''
--Gal. iv. 9.-
Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs.]
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.
--Jer. Taylor.
Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. 2 Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging. 3 (context by extension English) inadequate or meagre. adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
WordNet
Usage examples of "beggarly".
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
She said in a mortified manner that she never had any opportunity of turning her talents to account, as their associates were always a beggarly lot.
Neapolitan ambassador allows him to languish in prison for such a beggarly sum?
Andrews and I hastened off to get our own breakfast, and soon had a half-gallon of strong coffee, and a frying-pan full, of meat cooking over the fire--not one of the beggarly skimped little fires we had crouched over during our months of imprisonment, but a royal, generous fire, fed with logs instead of shavings and splinters, and giving out heat enough to warm a regiment.
The Antinomians even insisted, that the obligations of morality and natural law were suspended, and that the elect, guided by an internal principle more perfect and divine, were superior to the beggarly elements of justice and humanity.
Now the Countess Livia was a lady of queenly pose and the servitorial conventional speech likely at a push to prove beggarly.
Thus, Pertinax, thou art no more than what thou seemest, to wit--a poor, fierce rogue, and I, a beggarly stroller.
He had come a long way since his days of beggarly obscurity in Rat Town.
Hungry Grafton, Dudging Exhall, Papist Wicksford, Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bedford.
She said in a mortified manner that she never had any opportunity of turning her talents to account, as their associates were always a beggarly lot.
And the Neapolitan ambassador allows him to languish in prison for such a beggarly sum?
But when men think that these beggarly contrivances may supply a resource for the evils which result from breaking up the foundations of public order, and from causing or suffering the principles of property to be subverted, they will, in the ruin of their country, leave a melancholy and lasting monument of the effect of preposterous politics and presumptuous, short-sighted, narrow-minded wisdom.
Only black men would work for a wage that made the diggings profitable, and even that beggarly wage was many times more than the Boer f armers of the surrounding backveld republics could afford to Day.
When a man has nothing but rags on his body and vices in his heart, when he has reached that double degradation, material as well as moral, which characterises, in its two acceptations, the word beggarly, he is at an edge for crime.
These and twenty such like questions were proposed and answered, with as much beggarly logick and earnestness as was ever heard to proceed from the mouth of the pertinacious schismatick.