beggar

In several essays, including one titled “The Wandering Jew,” Elie Wiesel describes his friendship with a mysterious, charismatic sage who dresses like a beggar but whose Jewish learning enthralls all those who meet him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Robbie’s most deliciously debasing scene is when she throws coins on the ground for a desperate beggar — and then that person forces her to watch as he picks them up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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 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

Kings and sheep and whinnying horses and serving maids and beggar boys gathered together in the frosty imagined night.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

“To that I can only say they are correct. It beggars belief.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

She told MSPs that a new track would not have received planning permission, adding it "beggars belief" parliament found time to debate a bill that does "little or nothing" for greyhound safety.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

That England players – including Brook - sat in bars for hours on end, in plain sight of the public and the media, beggars belief.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

“You’re always helping little beggars to our property!” screeched the other of them—the woman—as ornate gold pins in her hair shook.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

The teeth in their sockets like dental molds, the crude tattoos etched in some homebrewed woad faded in the beggared sunlight.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

"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

One recalled another legacy of Ceausescu's -- the beggaring of Rumania -- when she explained, "We have nothing else to give the soldiers except bread."

From Time Magazine Archive

If they could succeed in doing so, the result would be absurd; they would all be trying to grow richer by beggaring each other.

From Political economy by W. Stanley Jevons