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

I have sinned and must atone, must parade my shame before the eyes of every beggar in the city.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

If you thought the scot-free museum heist beggared belief, then you underestimate Elektra and her imagination.

From Salon ● May 2, 2021

The first warning shot came from Patrik Schick, volleying just wide from 18 yards, and the next sequence of events beggared belief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2020

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

Your scheme for beggaring your children, and enriching yourself, clever as it is, is killed in the bud.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various