Translations for „beggars“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

I . beggar [ˈbegər, Brit -əʳ] VB trans

to beggar belief

ser inacreditável

to beggar description

ser indescritível

II . beggar [ˈbegər, Brit -əʳ] N

beggar

mendigo(-a) m (f)

beggars can't be choosers prov

a cavalo dado não se olham os dentes prov

Usage examples with beggars

beggars can't be choosers prov

a cavalo dado não se olham os dentes prov

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

In former times it was crowded with men and women covering its length in prostrations, beggars and pilgrims approaching the city for the first time.

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Concerns over beggars aggressively approaching park goers, as well as pickpockets have arisen.

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The subjects of their works are ordinary people, imbued with nostalgy: old men, beggars, etc. approaching them from a personal attitude.

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The sect's members are mostly beggars as its name suggests, but some of them are from other walks of life.

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The story takes a turn here and introduces us to the world of physically and mentally challenged beggars.

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Hundreds of beggars have rushed to the city from other parts of the country to make money from illegal profession of beggary.

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Alongside hunting parties and well-to-do landowners and burghers, we find a ragged rabble of floozies and farmhands, blacksmiths and street-vendors, barefooted scamps and beggars with peg legs.

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It would assuredly bring to them ruin by depriving them of employment, thus making them beggars.

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He claimed that the number of beggars and unschooled children was increasing while politicians were engaged in egotistical pursuits.

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In a recent book on poverty in art, there are no images of beggars wearing badges.

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