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

He is best known for a simple but profound act of compassion — sharing his cloak with a freezing beggar on a winter’s night.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025

“In any other country, if you see a beggar, it’s clear he’s a beggar,” said Habib Kareem, 26, a lawyer in Islamabad, the capital.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2024

And so Estraven received what they gave us, as a lord among lords or a beggar among beggars, a man among his own people.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Tracy said it "beggars belief that they couldn't see any physical assault there".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

"You go into the hospital and there's sepsis posters on lifts and walls but if their actual frontline staff can't recognise the symptoms of sepsis, it just beggars belief," said Jane.

From BBC ● 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

“Have you ever heard the expression beggars can’t be choosers?”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He said the "borderline belligerence" of the council beggared belief and the work should have been done in the evening with traffic lights.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

But the soaring price of shipping beggared that strategy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 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

A dirty nose who thought of beggaring her family!

From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola