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Significados de beggarly en inglés

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

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        Uso de beggarly en inglés
        1
        The dog too went: the most noble-looking item in the beggarly assets.
        Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
        2
        Then wish once more; and mind that it be no beggarly desire.
        Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
        3
        We can only offer you a beggarly five hundred to start with-
        The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
        4
        Not help casting me off for the sake of a beggarly old-
        Celtic Fairy Tales
        5
        The men, moreover, were just as hungry and as wild and beggarly.
        The Light of the Western Stars
        6
        Bunyan disclaims 'the beggarly art of complimenting' in things of such solemnity.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
        7
        Yet such an isolated act is surely a carnal and beggarly fulfilment.
        Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed
        8
        The best man in the State with a little beggarly thieving nonentity?
        The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
        9
        All he gets is a beggarly two thousand or so a year.
        The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
        10
        He looked more like an Arab sheik than a beggarly Sicilian shoemaker.
        The Net
        11
        A beggarly looking young man came a few days later, and said:
        The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
        12
        Phalante is a beggarly bankrupt, who thinks himself as rich as Croesus.
        Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
        13
        I have taken care thou dost not lavish all on beggarly stranger.'
        Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of B...
        14
        Dost thou turn to the beggarly priest whom thou erstwhile didst despise?
        A Boy's Ride
        15
        Will-Tiresomeflower, why did Nature give it such a beggarly few petals?
        Robert Elsmere
        16
        It was the fact of me; I am a beggarly person.
        Gunman's Reckoning
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