Definitions for beggarly

beggarly beg·gar·ly

Spelling: [beg-er-lee]
IPA: /ˈbɛg ər li/

Beggarly is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in beggarly (abegglry).

Definitions for beggarly

adjective

  1. like or befitting a beggar.
  2. meanly inadequate:

Origin of beggarly

First recorded in 1520-30; beggar + -ly

Examples for beggarly

Confound him and his beggarly high cheek-bones, and his Caledonian pock-pits.

You ran—you turned and ran to save your beggarly life—coward!

O, the boy, a bare-legg'd beggarly son of a gun, For one-and-fourpence.

I say down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.

I say, down with the aristocracy, the beggarly British aristocracy.

The dog too went: the most noble-looking item in the beggarly assets.

She pointed to the bare walls, the broken furniture, their beggarly attire.

I'd be sorry to like it; a dirty, beggarly, sickly place as I ever saw!

And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste.

But, Sir, these be nought save a parcel of beggarly craftsmen.

Word Value for beggarly
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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