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beggarliness

noun

Etymology

From beggarly + -ness.

  1. inherited from beggarly
  2. suffixed as beggarliness — “beggarly + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar

    The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.

    • And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness.
    • While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA