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Beggar meaning
A person who begs. | A person suffering from extreme poverty. | A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
Example sentences (20)
He shared his sermon dressed like a beggar and left the congregation beating their hearts in tears for failing to take care of the beggar.
According to the most widespread variation of the cloak story, Saint Martin cut off half of his cloak in order to offer it to a beggar and along the way, he gave the remaining part to a second beggar.
And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.
Admittedly, it does beggar belief that John McClane would end up involved in two separate incidents involving international criminals that both took place on Christmas Eve.
Annabel Longfield-Reeve, Heritage and Conservation Officer at the North York Moors National Park Authority, said:“Beggar’s Bridge is an irreplaceable historic asset that we are keen to preserve for future generations.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a bedbug – described as flat and brown, about 5mm in length, and a beggar to get rid of.
Instead of working to ensure adequate internally generated revenue, Buhari turned Nigeria into a beggar nation – going about borrowing instead of earning its income.
It was also used as a regular meeting place of the racy, hell-raising local men’s group the Beggar’s Benison.
Remember Dives, the Rich Man, in hell because of his maltreatment of the beggar (also named) Lazarus?
The directorial debut of Yuen Woo-ping, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow stars Chan as a bullied orphan who learns Snake Kung Fu from an old beggar.
The tower, which would support six antenna and two dishes, is planned to be built on a lane off Beggar Bush Lane (B3129) behind Clifton College’s sports pitches by Virgin Media and O2.
According to Luke 16, a rich man by the name of Diverus or Dives denied food and drink to the starving Lazarus, telling his servant to beat the beggar instead.
At this fountain, during daylight hours, players will find a beggar shouting out stories in the hopes of getting donations.
Both the beggar played by Simmul and the abbot portrayed by Sammul are fighting that sacred fight on their respective sides of the monastery's walls.
She had asserted that politics is an expression of service and “anyone from a king to a beggar” is entitled to that expression.
That, in turn, could take us down the economically destructive beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the 1930s.
The district administration, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) and the Women and Child Development Department have yet again taken up the task of making the city beggar-free a couple of months ago.
Your refusal to do so therefore positions you in the same class with the beggar referenced above.
Frost's Declan Orrun aka The Beggar King is charismatic and brutal.
He lived like a beggar himself, barely surviving.