BEGGARY Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

beggary

noun

ˈbe-gə-rē

Definition of beggary

as in poverty

the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions too many people are homeless and living in shameful beggary in this country

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Noun

Our adversaries are climate change, the threat of nuclear war, hunger, poverty and disease, not China.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
Well into her 90s, Huerta traveled across the country to speak about race, poverty, and women’s rights on behalf of the Dolores Huerta Foundation based in Bakersfield, California.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2026

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While some issues are clearly partisan — including the country’s current economic misery, the long-running war in Iran and the attacks on the Affordable Care Act — others are grounded in basic decency.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
But the stand-alone fragment, in the seeming spirit of Franz Kafka’s surreal and unsettling fiction, links success to misery, and happiness to death.

— Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of misery

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Trump has squeezed tight on the island’s already ailing economy, with a de facto blockade on the importation of oil bringing Cuba to virtual penury.

— Niall Stanage, The Hill, 20 May 2026
Such claims of penury, however, were difficult to square with certain facts.

— Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

Definition of penury

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