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How to use beggarly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word beggarly? Here are some examples.

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Ay, but Sir John, I think they are exceedingly poor and bare, too beggarly.
It looks like barm or yeast, but, being unfit for use, is only beggarly barm at best.
He uses weak and beggarly things like you and me so that the glory might redound to him alone.
Oh, ye crowds of rags and patches, frail, sinful and beggarly, what about it?
A beggarly tribute to all that is retrogressive, stupid, and mean.
This is a harsh yet magnificent land of snowy peaks, distant glaciers, towering cliffs, deep ravines and a few beggarly terraces of skimpy grass.
The left accuses him of wanting to return Britain to the beggarly 1930s, a claim Mr Osborne rebuts vigorously enough to suggest it stings.
At first glance one sees a fragile and beggarly old woman with white hair and arched shoulders.
Do our coaches try to go abroad to escape beggarly wages?
Examples from Classical Literature
Confound him and his beggarly high cheek-bones, and his Caledonian pock-pits.
Even here it is a fine wide stream, and seems to scorn the beggarly ditch that drudges like a pack-horse by its side.
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste.
She pointed to the bare walls, the broken furniture, their beggarly attire.
I say, down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.
But, Sir, these be nought save a parcel of beggarly craftsmen.
The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
That I posed as such a hero to you, and now you would see me in a wretched torn dressing-gown, beggarly, loathsome.
And about his shelves, A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds.
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