英语词汇“beggarly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

beggarly

/ˈbɛɡəli

adjective

1Pitifully or deplorably meagre or bad: the stipend in 1522 was a beggarly 26 shillings...

A beggarly tribute to all that is retrogressive, stupid, and mean.
What man but a philosopher would not be ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country exposed to the light of heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes?
Or if anyone could contrive to return in beggarly disguise after ten years' maritime battering and see off all his swaggering rivals with a deliciously unexpected volte-face, Vick would be your man.

Synonyms

meagre, modest, slight, lean, scant, scanty, skimpy, puny, inadequate, insufficient, insubstantial, miserly, paltry, pitiful, derisory, niggardly, ungenerous, miserable, contemptible, despicable

informal measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling, piffling, mingy, poxy

rare exiguous

2Poverty-stricken; very poor: his circumstances were beggarly...

Ay, but Sir John, I think they are exceedingly poor and bare, too beggarly.
The passage cited above is full of nostalgia for the ‘heroic’ days of his beggarly existence in Paris.
One of the beggarly, half-made societies of the world.

Synonyms

wretched, miserable, sordid, squalid, shabby, shoddy, mean, base, vile, foul, despicable, unpleasant;

poor, poverty-stricken, impoverished, distressed, beggared, needy, penniless, destitute, indigent, impecunious, penurious

informal hard up, on one's uppers

Derivatives

beggarliness

noun ...

It was the beggarliness of his companion that caused him the most pain.
It is not a noisy and showy beggarliness, nor is it a mask for laziness and neglect.
Why have we allowed this embarrassing beggarliness to become an annual ritual?

单词	beggarly
释义	beggarly /ˈbɛɡəli / adjective 1Pitifully or deplorably meagre or bad: the stipend in 1522 was a beggarly 26 shillings... A beggarly tribute to all that is retrogressive, stupid, and mean. What man but a philosopher would not be ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country exposed to the light of heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes? Or if anyone could contrive to return in beggarly disguise after ten years' maritime battering and see off all his swaggering rivals with a deliciously unexpected volte-face, Vick would be your man. Synonyms meagre, modest, slight, lean, scant, scanty, skimpy, puny, inadequate, insufficient, insubstantial, miserly, paltry, pitiful, derisory, niggardly, ungenerous, miserable, contemptible, despicable informal measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling, piffling, mingy, poxy rare exiguous 2Poverty-stricken; very poor: his circumstances were beggarly... Ay, but Sir John, I think they are exceedingly poor and bare, too beggarly. The passage cited above is full of nostalgia for the ‘heroic’ days of his beggarly existence in Paris. One of the beggarly, half-made societies of the world. Synonyms wretched, miserable, sordid, squalid, shabby, shoddy, mean, base, vile, foul, despicable, unpleasant; poor, poverty-stricken, impoverished, distressed, beggared, needy, penniless, destitute, indigent, impecunious, penurious informal hard up, on one's uppers Derivatives beggarliness noun ... It was the beggarliness of his companion that caused him the most pain. It is not a noisy and showy beggarliness, nor is it a mask for laziness and neglect. Why have we allowed this embarrassing beggarliness to become an annual ritual?
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