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mendicancy
noun
(men-di-can-cy)
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Synonyms:
beggary
,
begging
,
mendicancy
noun
(men-di-can-cy)
the state of being a beggar or mendicant
Synonyms:
beggary
,
mendicity
,
Examples:
They were reduced to mendicancy.
Words Related to
mendicancy
!
beggary
,
begging
,
pauperism
,
idleness
,
pauperization
,
slothfulness
,
indolence
,
improvidence
,
immorality
,
miserliness
,
harlotry
,
subservience
,
covetousness
,
servility
,
greediness
,
prodigality
,
abasement
,
lawlessness
,
avarice
,
submissiveness
,
despoliation
,
marcosian
,
selfishness
,
ungratefulness
,
welfarism
,
pauperisation
,
mendicants
,
unproductiveness
,
cogon
,
autarchy
,
ethnicism
,
laziness
,
landlordism
,
sectionalism
,
mendicity
,
heedlessness
,
vices
,
inefficiency
,
animality
,
adharma
,
clannishness
,
ritualism
,
inutility
,
romanticisation
,
inactiveness
,
mindlessness
,
squandermania
,
egoism
,
patriarchic
,
cupidity
,
rascality
,
fisherfolk
,
bohol
,
immiseration
,
beggars
,
tribalism
,
mulcting
,
answerability
,
sycophancy
,
bureaucratism
,
perpetuation
,
denudation
,
rapine
,
intransigency
,
cacique
,
greed
,
concupiscence
,
stultification
,
peculation
,
inconsideration
,
visayans
,
brigandage
,
tagalogs
,
sophism
,
filipinos
,
barbarisms
,
underdevelopment
,
enfeeblement
,
ineffectuality
,
ingratitude
,
yanqui
,
abnegation
,
moral rearmament
,
demoralisation
,
imprudence
,
benevolence
,
ignorance
,
homosexualism
,
passivity
,
heathenism
,
rapaciousness
,
insensitiveness
,
foolishness
,
impoverishment
,
igorots
,
statism
,
truckling
,
incapacities
,
comprador
,
capitalists
,
mendicancy
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