beggar
乞丐,乞讨者,乞儿,丐帮
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Definitions
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- : a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- : a penniless person.
- : a wretched fellow; rogue: the surly beggar who collects the rents.
- : a child or youngster: a sudden urge to hug the little beggar.
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- : to reduce to utter poverty; impoverish: The family had been beggared by the war.
- : to cause one's resources of or ability for to seem poor or inadequate: The costume beggars description.
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Examples
Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that.
In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”
The landays in I Am the Beggar of the World are sung only when men are absent.
I am the Beggar of the World is a book of poems, war reportage, and photographs.
He's a lucky beggar, Reginald, a very lucky beggar, and Warrender's daughter is more than he deserves.
A beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?
Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
If God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for galloping to Monte Carlo?
And on the same authority we find that there is the ghost of dirt, for the ghost of the old beggar-man was "dirty."