Beggarly - What does it mean?
beggarly | |
In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
* Jeremy Taylor
(by extension) inadequate or meagre.
beggarly
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Adjective
(er)- beggarly fellow
- beggarly rags
- Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.