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beggarly
[ beg-er-lee ]
adjective
- like or befitting a beggar.
- meanly inadequate:
How does he manage on such a beggarly salary?
beggarly
/ ˈbɛɡəlɪ /
adjective
- meanly inadequate; very poor
beggarly living conditions
Derived Forms
- ˈbeggarliness, noun
Other Words From
- beggar·li·ness noun
- un·beggar·ly adjective
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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