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Example sentences for "beggarly"

Lexicographically close words:
begetter; begetteth; begetting; beggar; beggared; beggarman; beggars; beggary; begge; begged
  1. You are ever fond of obliging these beggarly whigs.

  2. We promised, you know, to strip the wench, and send her begging back to her own beggarly country, and now you are for letting her go on.

  3. But poor or no, no one dreams of your being a beggarly cura like that.

  4. The bazaars are less beggarly than those at Ravandus, the chan is large and comfortable.

  5. He who would return from the blissful shores of Christianity to the beggarly elements of the world can do so only on the transporting barges of Satan.

  6. The first neglect to perform a known duty is the first step the Christian takes on his return to the “beggarly elements of the world.

  7. And when my father told me I was to look to you for my allowance, I accepted the information as a heavy percentage taken off my beggarly income.

  8. I should never have expected that beggarly fool would have spent on this feast all the money she got from that other fool, Raskolnikov.

  9. This he said, little thinking that he of whom he spoke now stood before him, and that in that uncouth disguise and beggarly obscurity was present the hidden majesty of Ulysses.

  10. And Telemachus, promising to obey his instructions, departed; and the shape of Ulysses fell to what it had been before, and he became to all outward appearance a beggar, in base and beggarly attire.

  11. Lead forth, to the beggary to which you have brought her, the beggarly offspring of that runagate Jacobite!

  12. I fancied she was your mistress, and that mattered little, for it is the only thing fitted for the beggarly exile's daughter.

  13. That's my misfortune; that marrying her in hope she was rich, she proves to be the beggarly sister to the more beggarly Scarborow.

  14. Well, I'll make the beggarly knaves to pack for this: I'll have it every cross, income and rent too.

  15. I hold my life, this beggarly scholar hankers about her still, makes her so untoward.

  16. He said it was beggarly that he should have to consider the rest of the family when he wanted to go out.

  17. What did it matter whether she was American or English--what did it matter whether she was insolently rich or beggarly poor?

  18. But let us understand how he proveth(239) that sometimes it is expedient and necessary to conform unto such burdensome and beggarly ceremonies, as are many ways inconvenient, and occasions of sundry evil effects.

  19. And Telemachus promising to obey his instructions departed; and the shape of Ulysses fell to what it had been before, and he became to all outward appearance a beggar, in base and beggarly attire.

  20. Praise was the very necessity of his existence, but he had the instinct not to display his beggarly hunger--which reached even to the approbation of such to whom he held himself vastly superior.

  21. I stood before her and told her, with great emphasis, how poor Margaret had married a beggarly foreigner--all in obedience to her heart and in defiance to her family.

  22. Outside are various stone cupboards, called vaults, where highbred dust moulders in state free from any beggarly admixture.

  23. Rappa Castle where we arrived with a beggarly feeling of having exhausted our adjectives is a large comfortable building not very much like one's idea of a castle.

  24. It was to this situation, upon an autumn day, when the colonists felt another year of beggarly effort behind them and their wretched harvest had been brought home, that the prophet Haggai addressed himself.

  25. I had rather serve the king in his wars abroad, than be the lackey of any beggarly courtier at home.

  26. As Heaven shall save me, it is unreasonable to expect that beggarly Sayagnes should talk like Toledans; nay, even some of them are not over-nicely spoken.

  27. The exchequer was reduced to such a beggarly condition by the expenses of the late unfortunate war, that the queen, who never called upon her Parliament unless she wanted something, was compelled to summon the Commons.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beggarly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abject; abominable; arrant; atrocious; base; beggared; beggarly; bereaved; bereft; cheap; cheesy; common; contemptible; crawling; crummy; debased; depraved; deprived; despicable; dirty; disadvantaged; disgusting; disreputable; execrable; famished; fawning; flagrant; flattering; fleeced; foul; fulsome; gaudy; grave; gross; groveling; hangdog; heinous; ignoble; impoverished; indigent; ingratiating; little; low; mean; measly; mendicant; meretricious; miserable; monstrous; needy; nefarious; obnoxious; obsequious; odious; paltry; parasitic; pathetic; pauperized; penurious; petty; pitiful; poky; poor; prostrate; rank; reptilian; rubbishy; sad; scabby; scrubby; scurvy; shabby; shoddy; small; sniveling; sorry; sponging; squalid; starved; stripped; sycophantic; trashy; truckling; twopenny; underfed; undermanned; undernourished; unfed; unmentionable; unprovided; unsupplied; valueless; vile; worthless; wretched