BEGGARY Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

beggary

noun

ˈbe-gə-rē

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. —

Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021

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Noun

Wyandotte County has a higher proportion of people who are uninsured and more children living in poverty than state and national rates reflect.

— Sofi Zeman April 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
Struggling to pay her bills and hosting her fresh-out-of-rehab ex-wrestler father, Jinx (Nick Offerman), Margo starts an OnlyFans account hoping to pull herself and her family out of poverty.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 6 Apr. 2026