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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution..
Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount Dunstan.
And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness.
While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness!
Use beggarliness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Beggarliness means (rare) The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount Dunstan.
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