Synonyms for Begging
beg·ging

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1. beggary, begging, mendicancynoun

   a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

   Synonyms:
   mendicity, beggary, mendicancy, begging

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1. • Solicitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "begging":

   beg, vagrancy, mendacity, beggars

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1. Coni Sanders:

   Senator Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, this has to stop. We are begging on the lives of our loved ones, begging on the lives of our family for you to support this.

2. Evangelos Venizelos:

   I am calling on and begging the Greek people and wise political parties of the country: now that we have eaten the donkey and almost all its tail and we only have a small part - a difficult bit at the end - to offer their help so that we won't get into a new adventure.

3. Jordan Peele:

   I used to go to the movie theater and watch horror movies and you know black people, we yell s --- at the screen, i ’d go watch like a Freddy movie and you ’d hear people saying s --- like, ‘ Oh, b ----, get out of the house ’ or ‘ No. no, no -- don’t walk backwards ! ’ or ‘ You’re white -- call the cops ! ’ I got it in my head that there was a missing piece of the conversation. There was a film that we were asking for, begging for that was n’t there for us.

4. Cenap Gumren:

   We found 15 people altogether who were alive and we were able to pull them to our boat, these people had broken Turkish and they were telling us that there are still more people in the water. They were all talking at the same time. One was saying that his brother was still there and somebody was saying that there was a kid still in the water. They were begging us to go and find them.

5. Jannie Ligons:

   I kept begging, 'Sir, don't make me do this, don't make me do this, sir. Please. You're going to shoot me,' all I could see was my life flashing before my eyes and the holster on his right side.