Definition of "beggarliness" []

• The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution. (noun)

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• "Campaign letters are always at least a little comic -- the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness."
• "Why have we allowed this embarrassing beggarliness to become an annual ritual?"
• "An antenna in me reached out and sensed her beggarliness, her forlorn life."