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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, a.
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness
and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying,
flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. --Jer.
Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of
a beggar.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, a.
1. 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.
2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of
a beggar.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
beggarly
adj 1: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence
in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: mean]
2: used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve
contempt [syn: mean]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
beggarly
a.
1 In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
contemptible.
2 Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
3 (lb en by extension) inadequate or meagre.
adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a
beggar.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
beggarly
a.
1 In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
contemptible.
2 Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
3 (lb en by extension) inadequate or meagre.
adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a
beggar.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
beggarly
a.
1 In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
contemptible.
2 Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
3 (lb en by extension) inadequate or meagre.
adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a
beggar.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
beggarly
a.
1 In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
contemptible.
2 Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
3 (lb en by extension) inadequate or meagre.
adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a
beggar.
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
beggarly
Englanti a.
puutteenalainen
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Beggarly /bˈɛɡəli/
هزيل
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
beggarly /bˈɛɡəli/
žebrácky
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beggarly /bˈɛɡəli/
arm
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
beggarly /bˈɛɡəli/
1. बहुत~कम~और~सस्ता
"We are given a beggarly wage."
From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
beggarly /bˈɛɡəli/
szegényes
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "beggarly":
abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, backscratching, bare-handed,
base, base-minded, beggared, beneath contempt, bereaved, bereft,
bootlicking, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, cowering,
crawling, cringing, crouching, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved,
deprived, despicable, dirty, disadvantaged, disgusting,
empty-handed, execrable, famished, fawning, flagrant, flattering,
fleeced, footlicking, foul, fulsome, gaudy, ghettoized, gimcracky,
grave, gross, groveling, half-starved, hangdog, heinous, ignoble,
ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
in need, in rags, in want, indigent, ingratiating, little, low,
low-down, low-minded, lumpen, mangy, mealymouthed, mean, measly,
mendicant, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, necessitous, needy,
nefarious, obeisant, obnoxious, obsequious, odious, on bended knee,
on relief, on short commons, out at elbows, paltry, parasitic,
pathetic, pauperized, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor,
poverty-stricken, prostrate, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad,
scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shoddy,
shorthanded, small, sniveling, sorry, sponging, squalid, starved,
starveling, starving, stripped, sycophantic, timeserving,
toadeating, toadying, toadyish, trashy, truckling, trumpery,
two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, unfed,
unmentionable, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, valueless,
vile, worthless, wretched
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 像乞丐的,赤贫的;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 象乞丐的,赤贫的
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