1. beggarly - Adjective
2. beggarly - Adverb
4. beggarly - Adjective Satellite
In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Produced or occasioned by beggary.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
Source: Webster's dictionarySir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. Samuel Johnson
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. Arthur Murphy
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp. James Russell Lowell
And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?" "Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father. Anne Brontë
I've abandoned the beggarly need to live. I live without it. Antonio Porchia
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed. Walt Whitman