(n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
(n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.
(n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
(n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
(v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
(v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the billions of the poorest people around the world who rely on philanthropic aid to meet even basic needs, as the saying goes, “beggars can’t be choosers”.
(2) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
(3) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
(4) It is this ultra-austerianism that has led to the cataclysmic beggaring of Greece, bleeding the patient white and then – when seeing that he’s dying – insisting that he bleed some more.
(5) There are families from Kutubdia who were once rich, with land and cows and boats, and now are living in slums and are beggars.
(6) If they are taking a Danish job then out, but primarily the barriers should be closed for criminal jerks and beggars and likewise from Romania, Bulgaria etc.” Another post refers to a newspaper story of Caroline Wozniacki, born to Polish parents but a Danish resident all her life, leaving photographs on Serena Williams’s phone after secretly taking it at a party.
(7) Independent music lobby group Impala, which has members including Adele's label Beggars Group, held a vote at a board meeting on Monday that maintained opposition to the deal.
(8) Not only does it beggar belief that Ms Proudman could have inferred any slight from such an innocuous missive, it also makes me fear for the next generation of women.” She also criticised the “armies of Feminazis” who had supported Proudman.
(9) MPs claimed it "beggars belief" that so much money is being written off and said parents are frustrated at not being paid the right amount of money or any at all.
(10) "It would be nice if Arsenal could pick up the odd trophy along the way, but beggars can't always be choosers."
(11) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.
(12) The offers were rejected as "insulting, provocative and beggarly" by the chiefs of Bodo, but later accepted on legal advice.
(13) And what is worse is that in those places where this appraisal exercise has been carried out, it has been claimed that 99.5% of GPs passed with flying colours, a figure that beggars belief.
(14) "It almost beggars belief that any administration could embark on such a course."
(15) Whilst we understand the logic of their proposal and their aim to introduce a subscription-only service, we struggle to see why rights owners and artists should bear this aspect of Apple’s customer acquisition costs,” claimed independent label Beggars Group in a statement earlier in the week.
(16) Beggars have been choosers, and they chose to do the right thing by their artists.
(17) The Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who has played a leading role in calling for an investigation into child abuse allegations, also aired his on Wednesdaydoubts yesterday, saying it beggared belief that the government did not foresee the potential conflict of interest when it first invited her to take the post on Monday.
(18) Viewed from the eurozone or Tokyo, the US is indulging in a beggar-thy-neighbour devaluation, knowing that the hands of the European Central Bank are tied since the Germans are hardly likely to sanction the purchase of IOUs issued in Greece.
(19) But it is hard not to see that, since then, the vices have got worse: a little further up the road Somalian prostitutes proposition pedestrians at all hours; a little further down, past beggars who cry "I'm hungry", young men crouch in doorways doubled over with needles in hand.
(20) Another compared the country to a person without sufficient food donning expensive clothes: "It's the same as beggars donating.
Ruin
Definition:
(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(3) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(4) A procedure is described for the rapid determination of putrascine, spermine and spermidine in ruine and whole blood.
(5) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(6) Conference, five years ago this motion would have ruined my life.
(7) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(8) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(9) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
(10) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(11) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
(12) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
(13) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(14) Even the avuncular governor of the Irish central bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, was forced to admit that pumping up to €70bn of taxpayers' money into the ruined banks "doesn't score highly on fairness" when he announced the fifth bailout on Thursday.
(15) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(16) But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company.
(17) His torturers accused him of passing on to British officials information about previous beatings at the hands of state officials and other human rights abuses, to ruin diplomatic relations between the two countries, he said.
(18) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
(19) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(20) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.