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

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

“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

Harry was bent over like an old beggar and kept wiping his nose on his sleeve.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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

Stray dogs sniffed at the grime, and beggars wrapped in newspaper slept in the doorways.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

The short-ball plan was hatched in desperation and England's compliance in their own downfall beggared belief.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023

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

Harren had beggared the riverlands and the Iron Islands alike to ornament his dream.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"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

It was in the thick of one of its periodic reform dramas, beggaring any movie and featuring a bomb, a Thin Man, a false-bottomed car.

From Time Magazine Archive

His tremendous power, his brilliant personality, his achievements beggaring the fables of the poets, put people in the right mind for worship.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray