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beggarly

(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"

Synonyms:

• abject,
• abominable,
• arrant,
• atrocious,
• backscratching,
• bare-handed,
• base,
• base-minded,
• beggared,
• beneath contempt,
• bereaved,
• bereft,
• bootlicking,
• cheap,
• cheesy,
• common,
• contemptible,
• cowering,
• crawling,
• cringing,
• crouching,
• crummy,
• debased,
• degraded,
• depraved,
• deprived,
• despicable,
• dirty,
• disadvantaged,
• disgusting,
• empty-handed,
• execrable,
• famished,
• fawning,
• flagrant,
• flattering,
• fleeced,
• footlicking,
• foul,
• fulsome,
• gaudy,
• ghettoized,
• gimcracky,
• grave,
• gross,
• groveling,
• half-starved,
• hangdog,
• heinous,
• ignoble,
• ill off,
• ill-equipped,
• ill-furnished,
• ill-provided,
• impoverished,
• in need,
• in rags,
• in want,
• indigent,
• ingratiating,
• little,
• low,
• low-down,
• low-minded,
• lumpen,
• mangy,
• mealymouthed,
• mean,
• measly,
• mendicant,
• meretricious,
• miserable,
• monstrous,
• necessitous,
• needy,
• nefarious,
• obeisant,
• obnoxious,
• obsequious,
• odious,
• on bended knee,
• on relief,
• on short commons,
• out at elbows,
• paltry,
• parasitic,
• pathetic,
• pauperized,
• petty,
• pitiable,
• pitiful,
• poky,
• poor,
• poverty-stricken,
• prostrate,
• rank,
• reptilian,
• rubbishy,
• sad,
• scabby,
• scrubby,
• scruffy,
• scummy,
• scurvy,
• scuzzy,
• shabby,
• shoddy,
• shorthanded,
• small,
• sniveling,
• sorry,
• sponging,
• squalid,
• starved,
• starveling,
• starving,
• stripped,
• sycophantic,
• timeserving,
• toadeating,
• toadying,
• toadyish,
• trashy,
• truckling,
• trumpery,
• two-for-a-cent,
• two-for-a-penny,
• twopenny,
• twopenny-halfpenny,
• underfed,
• undermanned,
• undernourished,
• underprivileged,
• unfed,
• unmentionable,
• unprovided,
• unreplenished,
• unsupplied,
• valueless,
• vile,
• worthless,
• wretched