Synonyms for beggarly
ˈbɛg ər libeg·gar·ly

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1. beggarly

   Synonyms:
   base, commonplace, contemptible, despicable, humble, inferior, lowly, mean, paltry, undignified, vulgar

   Antonyms:
   alarming, appalling, august, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, frightful, grand, horrible, imposing, majestic, noble, portentous, shocking, solemn, stately, terrible, terrific

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1. beggarly

   Synonyms:
   miserable, poor, stinted, wretched, niggardly, stingy, scant, illiberal

   Antonyms:
   noble, princely, stately, prodigal, sumptuous, liberal, profuse, gorgeous, magnificent

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1. beggarly, meanadjective

   marked by poverty befitting a beggar

   "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

   Synonyms:
   bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, mingy, mean, meanspirited, tight, hateful, average

   Antonyms:
   rich, generous

2. beggarly, meanadjective

   (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

   Synonyms:
   bastardly, miserly, mean(a), base, mingy, mean, meanspirited, tight, hateful, average

   Antonyms:
   generous, rich

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1. beggarlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   destitute, indigent, needy, poor

2. beggarlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, base-minded, low-minded, mean-spirited

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1. beggarlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   indigent, destitute, despicable, pitiable, paltry

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1. List of paraphrases for "beggarly":

   pitiful

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1. William Gurnall:

   What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace

2. Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_:

   A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.