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Adjective: beggarly  be-gur-lee
  1. Marked by poverty befitting a beggar
    "a beggarly existence in the slums"
    - mean
     
  2. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
    - mean

See also: beggar, poor, stingy, ungenerous

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befuddled
befuddlement
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beg off
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beggar-my-neighbor
beggar-my-neighbor policy
beggar-my-neighbor strategy
beggar-my-neighbour
beggar-my-neighbour policy
beggar-my-neighbour strategy
beggar's lice
beggar's-ticks
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