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

"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

It was beggar, beggar, beggar, all the way down the aisle.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Perhaps a few would have fancied more goals against Haiti, but beggars cannot be choosers after a 36-year wait for a win on the biggest stage of all.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

GMB Scotland general secretary Louise Gilmour said: "It beggars belief that a Scottish public body would bar a publicly-owned Scottish shipyard from even bidding to build a Scottish ferry."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

Their faces looked like dry and cracked leather, and they had nothing extra for little beggars.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Hugo Lloris' contribution to Tottenham's first half beggared belief and it was a relief not to see him return for the second half.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023

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

Yet that is what is happening, beggaring all notions of propriety and common sense.

From Time Magazine Archive

See Considerations upon two Bills, "Prose Works," iii, and Swift's letter to the Bishop of Clogher, July, 1733, in which he describes "those two abominable bills for enslaving and beggaring the clergy."

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning