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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. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beggary
Noun
  • This poverty is felt particularly hard by the young people of the nation.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Tedesco's dad worked hard to get out of poverty and she and her husband, through their own careers, eventually achieved a comfortable life.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These sequences feel so siloed off that the misery never informs the majesty, and vice versa.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That would be a fine enough place to end the story, and in Garrett’s original screenplay, the final pages only extended that misery.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the summer of 2021 protests began over the shortages and the penuries that people had been feeling.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Narrating this account of her brief life, Emily provides a sharp perspective on the penury and isolation that created such anguish — and such inspiration — for the Brontë sisters.
    Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 May 2025

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“Beggary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beggary. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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