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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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
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Pine Ridge has a long history of violence — a 1973 confrontation at Wounded Knee between activists and federal officials left several people dead — as well as high levels of poverty.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Raised in poverty, Jones would often recall being forced to catch, cook and eat rodents, or go hungry.Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Adults comfort young victims with assurances that bullies are living their glory days in the locker room and have nothing but misery to look forward to.Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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The story ends with a description of the misery and desolation that Mishima (the character, and, presumably, the author) has felt, his fundamental aloneness.Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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Anderson renders her character’s slow descent into virtual penury and laudanum addiction a genuinely heartrending experience, and her late-in-the-film breakdown about her uselessness stands as one of the decade’s great acting feats.IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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There’s a growing number of technocrats, business leaders and academics who see the current crisis in Gaza as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Beggary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beggary. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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