beggarly
- s marked by poverty befitting a beggar
a beggarly existence in the slums - s (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- It would be beggarly to call what Scofield does a performance; it is an incarnation.
- Rationed already to a beggarly half an ounce of tea a week, and with white bread scarce, Eire is faced with even stricter rationing until harvest time, unless she can get wheat .
- And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots .