The word "beggars" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to people who ask others for money as an act of charity or for survival. For example, "The city was filled with beggars at every street corner."
For those who know Berlin, there's something beguilingly moving about the glimpses of the city's life – the Mickey Mouse figurines in the confiserie, the list of prices in a cafe, the faces of invalids and beggars.
Personal enthusiasms are the lifeblood of cumbersome institutions and it beggars belief that Curtis can be criticised for (at long last) giving sculpture its proper place in the pantheon.
The social welfare secretary, Corazon Soliman, admitted that 490 beggars and homeless people had been taken off the street and put in luxury accommodation during the visit.
Weavers became beggars, while the population of Dhaka, which was once the great centre of muslin production, fell from several hundred thousand in 1760 to about 50,000 by the 1820s.
Karl Turner, Labour's shadow solicitor general, said: "It beggars belief that the chairman of the Conservative party went on live radio just three weeks ago and stated three times that he was not doing business as Michael Green while he was an MP, when new reports and audio tonight show quite clearly that he did.
We can't stay like beggars asking for money.
It's staggering and it beggars belief".
Beggars do not have to be losers.
All the sniggering and pontificating beggars belief".
Giving has been deterred through propaganda campaigns, which aim to persuade the soft-hearted that most beggars will use the money to buy drugs, and that few are truly homeless.
Over the past decade, democracy fever has cooled, but the area round the square, with its beggars, street-traders, theatre-goers and burger-chomping youths, has always been a good place to gauge the city's mood.Now, however, Pushkin Square has taken on a new association in Muscovites' minds: sudden death, pain and fear of worse to come.
