beggary

Example Sentences

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“We started our drive against the menace of beggary three months back.”

From The Guardian

“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned,” he said.

From The Guardian

A Massachusetts official, writing in 1857, informed the state legislature that the Irish immigrant population was characterized by “wretchedness, beggary, drunkenness, deceit, lying, treachery, malice, superstition.”

From Washington Post

Let us become one prosperous happy world without poverty, beggary, corruption, selfishness, disparity or inequality.

From New York Times

“This was a highly advanced society reduced to beggary by the total nature of the war,” Cornish said.

From Washington Times