beggarly meaning

Adjective: beggarly  begurlee

1. Marked by poverty befitting a beggar
   "a beggarly existence in the slums"
   - mean 
2. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
   - mean

See also: beggar, poor, stingy, ungenerous

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1. it seems to me we have stood just about enough of this man's beggarly interference.
2. we can only offer you a beggarly two hundred pounds to start with
3. it was only the beggarly priests sons and thieves made a good thing of it
4. The status of scientists and teachers is distressing and even beggarly.
5. By mid-August 1948, the Skardu garrison was in beggarly shape.