'beggarly' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means behaving or living like a beggar, or being of poor quality or insufficient amount. Example: The conditions in the refugee camp were beggarly, with families living in cramped tents and lacking basic necessities such as food and clean water.
3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.
This is a harsh yet magnificent land of snowy peaks, distant glaciers, towering cliffs, deep ravines and a few beggarly terraces of skimpy grass.
Yet Rwandans must not succumb to a beggarly mindset.
The left accuses him of wanting to return Britain to the beggarly 1930s, a claim Mr Osborne rebuts vigorously enough to suggest it stings.
Eventually there will be none to remember me as I was in those embarrassing, disarrayed years while I scuttled without a shell, between houses and wives, a snake between skins, a monster of selfishness, my grotesque needs naked and pink, my social presence beggarly and vulnerable.
One answer is to watch "Cloud Atlas" and then try Leos Carax's "Holy Motors," another new release in which an actor is forced to proliferate — becoming a beggarly crone, then a protective father berating his daughter, then a dying man making his peace with a tearful relative (a sequence directly stolen, by the way, from Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"), and so forth.
Smith argued that the issuance of bank notes in small denominations, which would be accepted by members of the public "without scruple," should be prohibited, because this practice permits "many mean people" (i.e., charlatans lacking sufficient reserves) to become "beggarly bankers," and ends up, when the fraud is exposed, rendering the currency worthless.
At the end of February came what first looked to be beastly ("a great storm") but what, after what followed, appeared no more than a measly, beggarly storm ("stiddy rain & snow").
In a triumph of alliteration, one dissenter described the Birmingham rioters as the "bunting, beggarly, brass-making, brazen-faced, brazen-hearted, blackguard, bustling, booby Birmingham mob".
The offers were rejected as "insulting, provocative and beggarly" by the chiefs of Bodo, but later accepted on legal advice.
