'Beggarly' definitions:
Definition of 'beggarly'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Beggarly'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Beggarly'
From: GCIDE
- Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beggarly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Beggarly'
- Beggar,
- Beggared,
- Beggaring,
- Beggarism,
- Beggar's lice,
- Beggar's ticks,
- beggar lice,
- Couple-beggar,
- beggar's-ticks,
- beggar-lice,
- beggar-my-neighbor,
- beggar-my-neighbour,
- beggar-ticks,
- beggar-my-neighbor policy,
- beggar-my-neighbor strategy,
- beggar-my-neighbour policy,
- beggar-my-neighbour strategy,
- european beggar-ticks,
- swampy beggar-ticks,
- trifid beggar-ticks