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Definition of beggary

"beggary" in the noun sense

1. beggary, begging, mendicancy

a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

2. beggary, mendicancy, mendicity

the state of being a beggar or mendicant

"they were reduced to mendicancy"

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Quotations for beggary

To borrow upon usury
Brings on beggary. [ Proverb ]

Trash and trumpery
Is the way to beggary. [ Proverb ]

Polite beggary is too common. [ W. R. Alger ]

Idleness is the key of beggary. [ Spurgeon ]

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. [ Goldsmith ]

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]

Fortune makes quick dispatch, and in a day
May strip you bare as beggary itself. [ Cumberland ]

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. [ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra,  Act I. .Sc.1 ]

Famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. [ William Shakespeare ]

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beggary in Scrabble®

The word beggary is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters beggary:

BEGGARY
(106 = 56 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

beggary

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word beggary

BEGGARY
(106 = 56 + 50)
BEGGARY
(104 = 54 + 50)
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BEGGARY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In beggary

BEGGARY
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BEGGARY
(104 = 54 + 50)
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BEGGARY
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beggary in Words With Friends™

The word beggary is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters beggary:

BEGGARY
(125 = 90 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

beggary

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word beggary

BEGGARY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In beggary

BEGGARY
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BEGGARY
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BEGGARY
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Words within the letters of beggary

2 letter words in beggary (9 words)

abagaraybebyreyaye

3 letter words in beggary (21 words)

ageareayebagbarbaybegbrabyeeareggeraerggabgaggayragrayryeyaryea

4 letter words in beggary (16 words)

barebearbragbrayeggygagegarbgeargrabgraygreygyrerageyareyearyegg

5 letter words in beggary (8 words)

baggybargeeggargagergayerrebagyageryerba

6 letter words in beggary (3 words)

baggerbeggarbraggy

7 letter words in beggary (1 word)

beggary

beggary + 1 blank (1 word)

beggarly
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Words containing the sequence beggary

Words that start with beggary (1 word)

beggary

Words with beggary in them (1 word)

beggary

Words that end with beggary (1 word)

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Word Growth involving beggary

Shorter words in beggary

be beg beggar

ar eggar beggar

egg eggar beggar

Longer words containing beggary

(No longer words found)