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.
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Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beggary
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The pair founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — a nonprofit dedicated to combating global poverty and disease — in 2000.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Elderly Barbadians today might look back on breadfruit as connected with poverty, but rice and potatoes wouldn’t have offered the same quality of nutrition.—
Elaine Savory,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
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Hamas committed horrific atrocities in October 2023 that didn’t empower Palestinians but left them in misery.—
Nicholas Kristof,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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This is especially harmful to disabled people who are told by others — mostly medical professionals — that their condition constitutes a life sentence of misery.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2025
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One of Thompson’s signature innovations was to use a predictive algorithm to kick ailing and disabled Medicare patients out of nursing homes and rehabilitative programs, causing untold misery and penury.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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Still, the movement to end dependency and penury in old age gathered force and triumphed with the enactment of Social Security in 1935, the crowning achievement of the New Deal.—
Jonathan Rauch,
The Atlantic,
10 Dec. 2024
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“Beggary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beggary. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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