Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being beggarly; extreme poverty; meanness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare The state or characteristic of being or resembling a
beggar ;destitution .
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Examples
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Campaign letters are always at least a little comic -- the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness.
John Tomasic: The Hillary Ask: Whatever You Do, Don't Say "Obama"! 2008
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Campaign letters are always at least a little comic -- the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness.
John Tomasic: The Hillary Ask: Whatever You Do, Don't Say "Obama"! 2008
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Campaign letters are always at least a little comic -- the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness.
John Tomasic: The Hillary Ask: Whatever You Do, Don't Say "Obama"! 2008
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Why have we allowed this embarrassing beggarliness to become an annual ritual?
January 2006 2006
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An antenna in me reached out and sensed her beggarliness, her forlorn life.
Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001
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But, asks the English tourist impressed by the apparent beggarliness of all he sees, how could the tenant procure a quarter of the money?
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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In fact, in matters of this kind, a man in foreign countries, and especially in the military and naval service of his country, should recollect the effect of this beggarliness on the mind of strangers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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But, asks the English tourist impressed by the apparent beggarliness of all he sees, how could the tenant procure a quarter of the money?
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904
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Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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