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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
  • Across the Americas – the most murderous region in the world – the average life expectancy of a trans woman is just 35 years old, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which attributes the frequency of early death to compounding violence, poverty and social exclusion.
    Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, Buckley was lying through his teeth: Almost half of all Black Americans were living in poverty.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing was achieved except more misery for the region at the hands of Hamas and its allies.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The question of whether there is hunger is different from the question of who is responsible for the misery.
    Seth Mandel, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But the mass of the population remained trapped in rural penury or urban favelas, while the fortunate few soared over the country’s ungovernable megacities in private helicopters.
    Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
  • The progressivism had its roots in a southern economy that depended on agriculture and, as a result, suffered an unusual degree of penury during the Depression.
    Taeku Lee, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2013

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“Beggary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beggary. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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