abject, cheesy, disadvantaged, gimcracky, in rags, meretricious, paltry, sad, squalid, two-for-a-penny, worthless
Definitionadj. marked by poverty befitting a beggar
Last update: September 21, 2015
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We are given a beggarly wage. [Please select]
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What man but a philosopher would not be ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country exposed to the light of heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes? [Please select]
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He looked more like an Arab sheik than a beggarly Sicilian shoemaker. [Please select]
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I have but a beggarly sum remaining at my bankers. [Please select]
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But, after all, it goes a beggarly short way. [Please select]
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Now, suddenly, as he moved along the two shelves, he felt ashamed at their beggarly showing. [Please select]
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No man, not even George Oakleigh, was irresistible on a beggarly half-bottle. [Please select]
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"Madame," said I, "for your sake I'll go, if it's no more than a beggarly Legation."' [Please select]
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