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Synonyms for beg

scrounge

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Synonyms for beg

to ask or ask for as charity

to make an earnest or urgent request

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Synonyms for beg

call upon in supplication

make a solicitation or entreaty for something

dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted

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Jimenez said some of those who begged off were also 'familiar with the procedures only for automated election.'
"When the undercover police busted me begging, that was the first time that I begged. I was trying to beg money from passersby and people present in the shops.
And what about the former Taoiseach who begged for cash from rich businessmen while he lived in luxury in a Georgian mansion?
No respondents indicated that they begged because it was lucrative or 'easy money'.
The Tax Court may have been trying to answer a broader question in these cases--can money begged from family and friends be considered income and therefore qualify as earned income for EITC purposes?
A Cantonese published an article in 1920 in the journal of a Cantonese native place association in Shanghai, attacking his fellow provincials who begged on Shanghai's streets in order to earn a "living without working." The author wrote indignantly: "Beggars are poor creatures in the world and we ought to have sympathy for them.
The court heard Hunter, who used the cash to feed his drug and alcohol addictions, told police he begged up to seven days a week in Yeovil, Somerset.
A WOMAN who begged to get money to buy medicine for her sick child was fined EUR10 yesterday.
At the busy Newland's Cross on the Naas Road in west Dublin, another Romanian woman begged from motorists at the traffic lights.