beggarly (adj.)
- abject
- abominable
- arrant
- atrocious
- base
- bereaved
- bereft
- bootlicking
- cheap
- cheesy
- common
- contemptible
- cringing
- crummy
- debased
- degraded
- depraved
- deprived
- despicable
- dirty
- disadvantaged
- disgusting
- empty-handed
- execrable
- famished
- fawning
- flagrant
- flattering
- foul
- fulsome
- gaudy
- grave
- gross
- groveling
- hangdog
- heinous
- ignoble
- ill-equipped
- impoverished
- indigent
- ingratiating
- little
- low
- low-down
- lumpen
- mangy
- mealymouthed
- mean
- measly
- mendicant
- meretricious
- miserable
- monstrous
- necessitous
- needy
- nefarious
- obnoxious
- obsequious
- odious
- paltry
- parasitic
- pathetic
- petty
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poky
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- prostrate
- rank
- reptilian
- rubbishy
- sad
- scabby
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scummy
- scurvy
- shabby
- shoddy
- small
- sorry
- squalid
- starved
- starving
- stripped
- sycophantic
- timeserving
- toadyish
- trashy
- twopenny
- twopenny-halfpenny
- underfed
- undermanned
- undernourished
- underprivileged
- unfed
- unmentionable
- valueless
- vile
- worthless
- wretched
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
Weak and beggarly elements.
The beggarly last doit.
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
