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Meanings of beggarly in inglés

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

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Usage of beggarly in inglés
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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
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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
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The men, moreover, were just as hungry and as wild and beggarly.
The Light of the Western Stars
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Bunyan disclaims 'the beggarly art of complimenting' in things of such solemnity.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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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
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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
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It was the fact of me; I am a beggarly person.
Gunman's Reckoning
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