Beggarly

Definition: Beggarly

Beggarly

Adjective

1. Marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut".

2. Used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt.

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Date "beggarly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Beggarly

Commonalty

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Disrepute

Ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base; (dishonorable).

Insufficiency

Emptiness, poorness; Adjective:; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes "; indigence; insolvency; (nonpayment).

Poverty

Empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.

Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.

Servility

Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb:

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Crosswords: Beggarly

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, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-servicable, 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, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition (King Lear; writing credit: William Shakespeare)

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The public even were admitted there by a beggarly entrance opening from the street

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Expressions using "beggarly": beggarly account of empty boxes ♦ beggarly wage. Additional references.

Albanian

i varfër (bad, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lame, lazarus, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, miserable, one horse, penurious, poor, spare, squalid, wretched), i poshtër (blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scoundrelly, scurvy, sneaking, sneaky). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معدم فقير جدا, ‏حقير (abject, base, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оскъден (exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), окаян (abject, deplorable, despicable, forlorn, miserable, reprobate, squalid, wretched). (various references)

Czech

žebrácký (skimpy). (various references)

French

piètre, misérable. (various references)

German

arm (arm, beam, bracket, branch, indigent, indigently, lacking, miserable, penurious, penuriously, poor, poorly, ray of starfish, sparse). (various references)

Greek 

κακόμοιροσ, ελεεινόσ (abject, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, haggard, miserable, piteous, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, seedy, sorry, wretched), άθλιοσ (abject, beastly, caitiff, forlorn, miserable, putrid, scullion, squalid, unblessed, Unblest, villainous, wretched), αξιολύπητοσ (piteous, woefully). (various references)

Hebrew 

קבצ� י, אביו� י. (various references)

Hungarian

szegényes (grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff, Lenten, meagre, miserly, penurious, pitiable, pokey, poorish, poverty-stricken, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender), silányan, koldusszegény. (various references)

Indonesian

miskin (destitute, indigent, needy, poor). (various references)

Italian

povero (abject, arm, bare, dismal, indigent, meager, meagre, miserable, needy, poor, poor man, unfortunate, wretched), meschino (base, currish, mean, measly, miserable, narrow, paltry, petty, poor, scanty, shabby, small minded, sordid, sorry, wretched), mendicante (beggar, cadge, destitute, indigent, mendicant). (various references)

Manx

gyn y vie (dud, good-for-nothing), gortagh (chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy), femoil (destitute, essential, necessary, needy, requisite), dy moal (deliberately, faintly, poorly, slowly), dy boght. (various references)

Pig Latin

eggarlybay.(various references)

Portuguese

pobre (almsman, beggar, close-fisted, destitute, eleemosynary, hard set, hungry, indigent, jejune, lazarus, mean, mendicant, miserable, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, penurious, poor, shabby), indigente (destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, pauper, poor, poverty-stricken), desprezível (abject, caitiff, contemptible, despicable, lily-livered, little, mean, negligible, paltry, peddling, picayune, pitiable, reptile, scurvy, trashy, unworthy, worthless). (various references)

Romanian

sãrac (barren, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), mizer (miserable, sorry, squalid), jalnic (deplorable, distressing, doleful, forlorn, heart rending, lamentable, lamentably, lamenting, mangy, mean, miserable, miserably, mournful, pathetic, pathetically, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, rueful, ruefully, sad, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful, wretched), calicesc (miserable, poor, wretched). (various references)

Russian 

нищенский. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bedno (miserably, pitiably, poorly), bedan (abject, crummy, distressful, lamentable, mangy, miserable, needy, pelting, pitiable, poor, rubbishy, squalid, wretched), prosjački (mendicant, mumpish). (various references)

Spanish

miserable (abject, dismal, meager, measly, miserable, moldy, mouldy, paltry, poor, sordid, squalid, twopenny, wretched), mezquino (cheap, hard-fisted, mean, measly, miserable, paltry, penurious, petty, petty-minded, scabby, scaly, shabby, skimpy, small minded, small-minded), mísero (caitiff, squalid, wretched). (various references)

Swedish

utfattig (destitute, impoverished, indigent, miserably poor, penniless, poverty ridden, poverty stricken, stony broke). (various references)

Thai

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Turkish

sefil (abject, dead end, destitute, down and out, down at heels, hangdog, miserable, poor, poverty stricken, rep, ropy, shabby, sordid, squalid, starveling, wretch, wretched), sadaka gibi, muhtaç (dependent, destitute, hard up, have a weak chest, in need, indigent, necessitous, needy, straitened, straitened for), çok az (slightly, spot of). (various references)

Ukrainian

мізерний (bare, feeble, insignificant, miserable, naught, nominal, outside, paltry, pitiable, pokey, poky), жебрацький (eleemosynary), жалюгідний (abject, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, parsimonious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, snide, sorry, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog), по-жебрацькому. (various references)

mendicum, mendicus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Beggarly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Begarelli, begarry, beggardly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: beggary, greylag.

-2 letters: argyle, bagger, barely, barley, beggar, bleary, braggy, garble, gargle, lagger, raggle.

-3 letters: abler, agger, agley, argle, bagel, baggy, baler, barge, barye, belay, belga, beryl, blare, blear, early, eggar, gable, gager, gayer, glare, glary, gleba, gyral, lager, large, layer, leary, leggy, raggy, regal, relay, yager, yerba.

-4 letters: able, ably, abye, aery, ager.

+3 letters: ballyragged, bullyragged.