English-Thai Dictionary

beggarly

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEGGARLY

a.Mean; poor; in the condition of a beggar; extremely indigent.

 

BEGGARLY

adv. Meanly; indigently; despicable.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BEGGARLY

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.

 

2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs. ] Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

 

BEGGARLY

BEGGARLY Beg "gar *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

beggarly

beg gar ly |ˈbegərlē ˈbɛɡərli | ▶adjective poverty-stricken. • pitifully or deplorably meager or bad: the stipend was a beggarly $26 | my beggarly physical condition. DERIVATIVES beg gar li ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

beggarly

beg |gar ¦ly |ˈbɛgəli | ▶adjective 1 pitifully or deplorably meagre or bad: the stipend in 1522 was a beggarly 26 shillings. 2 poverty-stricken; very poor. DERIVATIVES beggarliness noun

 

Oxford Thesaurus

beggarly

beggarly adjective 1 a priest's stipend in 1522 was a beggarly 26s 8d: meagre, modest, slight, lean, scant, scanty, skimpy, puny, inadequate, insufficient, insubstantial, miserly, paltry, pitiful, derisory, niggardly, ungenerous, miserable, contemptible, despicable; informal measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling, piffling, mingy, poxy; rare exiguous. ANTONYMS considerable. 2 they lived in the most beggarly part of Bethnal Green: wretched, miserable, sordid, squalid, shabby, shoddy, mean, base, vile, foul, despicable, unpleasant; poor, poverty-stricken, impoverished, distressed, beggared, needy, penniless, destitute, indigent, impecunious, penurious; informal hard up, on one's uppers.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

beggarly

b é g gar ly 形容詞 ｟かたく ｠極貧の ; ごく少量の .