BEGGARLY Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

beggarly

adjective

ˈbe-gər-lē

as in impoverished

lacking money or material possessions the dictator and his inner circle lived in unconscionable luxury while the beggarly masses eked out a pitiful existence

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Recent Examples of beggarly The aerial railway carried its last rider in 1937, and the fare was a beggarly two Depression-era dollars. —

Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021

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Among the Cambodians to exploit the instability was Toek Tik, a once-impoverished former Khmer Rouge foot soldier whose confessions helped investigators substantiate some of their claims against Latchford.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
And the people who got trapped behind—and who are now the impoverished mass of the remaining Cuban population—are the descendants of the slave population, or those who intermarried with the slave population.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026