beggar

Whether buying a Porsche 911, paying bills or giving money to a beggar at a stoplight, the payment is made the same way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

“But here, you see a beggar and you think to yourself, ‘He’s working for them,’” he added, referring to Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2024

But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

And it seemed to him he led an old outcast, a beggar man, leaning most painfully upon a stick, his poor cloak, all in tatters, looped about him.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The novel illuminates the makeshift community cultivated among the beggars, who maintain their own hierarchy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

The survey looks at "everyday giving" which includes both direct, personal help - to beggars, family or friends, often seen as charity - and donations to organised, non-religious institutions, which are typically described as philanthropy.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

"Common people, business owners — even beggars — are now fed up. Justice has been sent into exile."

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

“It kind of beggars credulity that that number of complaints could be raised and that none could be substantiated,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

‘I’d never have picked him for a relative. But beggars can’t be choosers—and happens I’m a beggar. It’s on to time to get ready to go to him.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Even in a country used to royal spectacle, that parade beggared description: 19 military bands and 4,000 troops, stretching a full mile from the palace gates along the mall and around the corner into Whitehall.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

Before his removal, Mr Gove had said it "beggared belief" that he was still in post.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2022

If you thought the scot-free museum heist beggared belief, then you underestimate Elektra and her imagination.

From Salon ● May 2, 2021

Harren had beggared the riverlands and the Iron Islands alike to ornament his dream.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"It's beggaring the entire Forest Service budget," Safford said.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2022

But beggaring the workers who trusted promises made by their employers, their unions and their government is not the answer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2018

It would have restricted development on grouse habitat, potentially beggaring states such as Wyoming which collects three-fifths of its revenues from energy companies.

From Economist ● May 3, 2018

To curry favor with them, he came ominously close to beggaring the very policy he was advocating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each minute is beggaring hundreds—each half-hour is sending old houses to the wall and shattering public confidence.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck