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View synonyms for beggarly

beggarly

[ beg-er-lee ]

adjective

  1. like or befitting a beggar.
  2. meanly inadequate:

    How does he manage on such a beggarly salary?



beggarly

/ ˈbɛɡəlɪ /

adjective

  1. meanly inadequate; very poor

    beggarly living conditions

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈbeggarliness, noun
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Other Words From

  • beggar·li·ness noun
  • un·beggar·ly adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of beggarly1

First recorded in 1520–30; beggar + -ly
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Example Sentences

Unsure whether he had been duped, he sent Francis a beggarly email: “I was wondering if you have reached a decision on my Shedd Bailout/Rescue Loan proposal.”

The left accuses him of wanting to return Britain to the beggarly 1930s, a claim Mr Osborne rebuts vigorously enough to suggest it stings.

So few assistants, so pitiably few customers, such a beggarly array of goods!

After all, he had other things to mind than a piece of beggarly waste land dotted with Chapels that were a blasphemy of the name of beauty.

We shall not get any before next January, and then only a beggarly hundred or so.

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