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 county’s two food banks partnered with a nonprofit focused on optimizing systems to reduce food waste, forming the OC Hunger Alliance, a P3 with a mission of optimizing the emergency food system to address the root causes of poverty.Taryn Palumbo, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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While inflation has declined to less than three per cent, the poverty rate has grown roughly eleven points, to fifty-three per cent.Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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While there are notable and beautiful bright spots to All or Nothing (most of which go to infallible Leigh regular Ruth Sheen), the film really doubles down on the ambient misery of these people’s lives.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Adults explain little to her—the possibility of death lies beyond her field of vision—which gives the vivid misery of her treatment a fairy-tale quality.Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 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 18 Dec. 2024.
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