Being Poor
base, beggarly, cheap, derisory, invaluable, despicable
Treasury Men in Action - 1950 The Case of the Beggarly Banker 3-39 was released on: USA: 28 May 1953
A little prayer from his heart to those who are spiritually challenged and expect a satisfying answer.
The verb mean is used to express or convey a particular idea, definition, purpose, or intention.As an adjective, mean can imply mean-spirited, miserly, tight, beggarly, hateful, or many other usually derogatory implications when describing a person’s character. It can also be the very least amount of something, an average value, or something that is excellent like a star tennis player having a “mean” serve.
The verb mean is used to express or convey a particular idea, definition, purpose, or intention.As an adjective, mean can imply mean-spirited, miserly, tight, beggarly, hateful, or many other usually derogatory implications when describing a person’s character. It can also be the very least amount of something, an average value, or something that is excellent like a star tennis player having a “mean” serve.
A "beggarly king" typically refers to a ruler who is impoverished or lacks the resources and power traditionally associated with kingship. This phrase can also symbolize a leader who, despite holding a title or position of authority, is ineffective or unable to command respect and loyalty due to their diminished circumstances. It often conveys themes of irony, reflecting the contrast between the dignity of kingship and the reality of destitution.
When you add -ly to the noun beggar, you form the adjective beggarly, which describes a noun as small and not at all generous, measly.
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter., A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment., Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress., A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin., A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture., A ragged edge., A sail, or any piece of canvas., To become tattered., To break (ore) into lumps for sorting., To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
1 costing little ²produce is usually cheaper in summer³Synonyms inexpensive, low, low-cost, low-priced, popular, reasonable, uncostly, undear2 of inferior quality ²cheap furniture is never a bargain³Synonyms base, cheesy, common, mean, ornery, paltry, poor, rubbishing, rubbishly, rubbishy, shoddy, sleazy, tatty, trashy, trumpery;3Synonyms CONTEMPTIBLE, beggarly, despicable, despisable, mean, pitiable, pitiful, scurvy, shabby, sorry4Synonyms STINGY, cheeseparing, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimy, tight, tightfisted
Oedipus loses his job as King of Thebes, because of having killed his father and his king and for having married his own mother. He blinds himself, and goes into a miserable, beggarly exile. During that exile, he curses his brother-in-law, Theban King Creon. Specifically, he calls for all of the members of Creon's house to be miserable in their old age.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern B-G----Y. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter B and 3rd letter G and 8th letter Y. In alphabetical order, they are: beggarly bigeminy
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 7 words with the pattern ---GA--Y. That is, eight letter words with 4th letter G and 5th letter A and 8th letter Y. In alphabetical order, they are: bangalay beggarly elegancy frugally garganey mangabey vulgarly