beggarly

Example Sentences

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Unsure whether he had been duped, he sent Francis a beggarly email: “I was wondering if you have reached a decision on my Shedd Bailout/Rescue Loan proposal.”

From Washington Post

So few assistants, so pitiably few customers, such a beggarly array of goods!

From Project Gutenberg

We shall not get any before next January, and then only a beggarly hundred or so.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, having gazed their fill on the Bavarian throne's wrecker and finding she could not dance, they stayed away; and Lola ended her engagement at the Broadway to the hackneyed "beggarly array of empty benches."

From Project Gutenberg

The peasants wrapped in their blankets had a beggarly aspect after the dandy majo of Andalusia.

From Project Gutenberg