(n.) An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.
Example Sentences:
(1) It made perfect sense to use to spread those kinds of features and hardware around the wrist instead of throwing them all into one thick lump under the screen on top of your wrist,” said Omer El Fakir, industrial designer of Blocks.
(2) "If they keep insisting that it must be Zuma – a candidate charged with fraud – the ANC is implying that no other person can lead the party, which is not true," Fakir said.
(3) With its glittering shrines, labyrinthine alleys and dreadlocked, often doped-out fakirs – holy men – Sehwan is the largest centre of pilgrimage for Pakistan's Sufi Muslims.
(4) Fakir is head of international relations and governance at the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, while McDonald is deputy director general of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
(5) After the Highgate event, there was a retreat up the hill to the Old Crown Inn, where an ancient notice attached to the wall spelled out the Rules of the Inn: "No thieves, fakirs, rogues or tinkers."
(6) "We'd love to replicate the success of the Pebble," said El Fakir.
(7) He branded Gandhi "a half-naked fakir" who "ought to be laid, bound hand and foot, at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new viceroy seated on its back".
(8) Ewen McDonald, from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was appointed co-chair of the Green Climate Fund board alongside South Africa's Zaheer Fakir for the first year of its operations – from August 2012 to August this year.
(9) Ebrahim Fakir, senior researcher at the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies, said the ANC's position on Zuma had until now had been one of "manufactured consensus", but that dissenting voices may now begin to be heard.
(10) These were the South African representative Zaheer Fakir and Australia's Ewen McDonald, who had been favourite to win the post.
Mendicant
Definition:
(a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
(n.) A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is why, among other reasons, it is regrettable that the British approach to China under the coalition has come to have about it something mendicant, cap in hand, and unduly deferential.
(2) Previously, the self-appointed political elite in Scotland has comprised a small, mendicant travelling band of senior politicians, political journalists and an assortment of talking heads who pop up on our television screens whenever there is an election or even just the hint of one.
(3) Whereas for a long time it was assumed that chloride ions were reabsorbed entirely passively with sodium--the "mendicant" role of chloride, more recent studies suggest that several distinct reabsorptive transport mechanisms operate in parallel.
(4) While Nauru in practice is best described as a “mendicant” or even “prostitute” state, its formal status has allowed Australia to put forward the legal fiction that the treatment of refugees on Nauru is a matter for Nauru, not Australia.
(5) Finn, Merivel writes, "describes himself as a portraitist, but leads, I discover, an almost mendicant life in the shires of England, going on foot from one great house to another, begging to paint its inhabitants".
(6) This surgery was frequently performed by itinerant mendicants, charlatans, and also by the more legitimate members of the surgical community living in the 13 states at the time of the Revolution.
(7) The main point of the World Bank study is active community participation which stops the paternalistic government-mendicant demanding populace pathology that is common today.
(8) During this time, too, it was relatively simple to claim housing benefit while subletting my student flat over the summer for nothing to the mendicant men who drank under the bridge in exchange for some of their Giro Party cargo (a dozen cans of Tennent's Super each Tuesday).
(9) Economically misgoverned for a generation, we are reduced to being principle-free economic mendicants, with Bambi Osborne and Thumper Johnson touring the world for hand-outs.