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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Recent Examples of beggary
Hence his need to construct an elaborate scheme of beggary that seems to have involved the bills being paid initially by the Cabinet office, then by the Conservative Party, then by a private donor, and finally, and only after the whole affair became a political embarrassment, by Johnson himself.
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Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
13 May 2021
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
13 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beggary
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North Side schools have remained dominant in bringing in this outside funding, but some higher-poverty South and West Side campuses such as Kenwood increasingly held their own.
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Those concerns already exist within New Haven, and leaders would need to balance the existence of more than $1 billion in combined economic investment into local quantum efforts with the needs of a city where one quarter of residents lived in poverty in 2023.
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The episodes seemed to wallow in Carmy’s misery, along with the frustrations of everyone around him.
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That’s a recipe for in-flight 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.
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Such claims of penury, however, were difficult to square with certain facts.
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“Beggary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beggary. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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