beggarly
/ˈbɛɡərli/
adjective
- Very poor; lacking money or resources.
- They lived in a beggarly shack with no electricity.
- His beggarly wages were barely enough for food.
- The village had a beggarly appearance after the famine.
- Small or inadequate in amount; meager.
- The donation was a beggarly five dollars.
- She received a beggarly sum for her hard work.
- He offered a beggarly excuse for his absence.
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