Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of a beggar; as a beggar.

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  • adverb in a begging manner

Etymologies

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begging +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Both essays question-beggingly describe the 375 detainees still being held at Guantanamo as “enemy combatants.”

    It’s a Wonder It’s Not Michelin-Rated 2007

  • It certainly sounds like good news that the administration has finally deigned to let FISA courts play their legally mandated oversight role, putting an end to the extralegal enterprise euphemistically (and question-beggingly) dubbed the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

    Slightly-Less-Illegal Wiretaps 2007

  • The whole "splitting up with Husband" thing is going according to plan, which makes me alternately relieved and death-beggingly miserable.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2006

  • Solidarity in support of accused rapists or, to put it less question-beggingly people accused of rape may be problematic in the sense you suggest, but so what?

    Women’s Duke Lacrosse Team - Why Not Wear a Bracelet That Says: Justice for All? 2006

  • All because I am hungry and want to eat dinner and when I mentioned food my boyfriend looked at me beggingly with big starving puppy eyes.

    scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2005

  • Lavinia then, seemingly overcome, trembling, put herself to her belly before him, her lips and hair over his sandals, and beggingly, timidly, as though she feared she might be struck or kicked, began to kiss and lick his feet.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • Lavinia then, seemingly overcome, trembling, put herself to her belly before him, her lips and hair over his sandals, and beggingly, timidly, as though she feared she might be struck or kicked, began to kiss and lick his feet.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • As such, I did not (question-beggingly) use it to argue against Nozick; I suggested that he should explain it.

    The Identity of Nozick Gordon, David 1982

  • She added nothing, except with her eyes, which went wistfully, searchingly, beggingly, into his; till a film of tears gathered, and the book fell, and her arms went round him again and her face was hid.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • She added nothing, except with her eyes, which went wistfully, searchingly, beggingly, into his; till a film of tears gathered, and the book fell, and her arms went round him again and her face was hid.

    Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

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