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Adjective: beggarly  be-gu(r)-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: poor, stingy [informal], ungenerous

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beggar-my-neighbor policy
beggar-my-neighbor strategy
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beggar-my-neighbour policy
beggar-my-neighbour strategy
beggar's lice
beggar's-ticks
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