Begging Synonyms and Antonyms

Request
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. mooching
  2. cadging
  3. hitting
  4. touching
  5. chiselling
  6. sponging
  7. bumming
  8. starving
  9. wanting
  10. soliciting
Antonyms:
  1. answering
  2. bestowing
  3. endowing
  4. giving
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. beggary
  2. mendicancy
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. desirous
  2. anxious
  3. in-need
  4. supplicating

Begging Sentence Examples

  • She kept begging to go away.

  • They ought to be begging you.

  • Is it necessary to go from door to door begging your food?

  • The jus episcopale which Luther afterwards claimed for the secular authorities had been practically exercised in Saxony and Brandenburg; cities and districts had framed police regulations which set aside ecclesiastical decrees about holidays and begging; the supervision of charity was passing from the hands of the church into those of laymen; and religious confraternities which did not take their guidance from the clergy were increasing.

  • An armistice was arranged; the besieged begging for a remission from the pope, and also asking Henry to request the emperor to move the pope to refuse.

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