The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, a.
   1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a
      beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor;
      contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." --South. "A
      beggarly fellowship." --Swift. "Beggarly elements." --Gal.
      iv. 9.
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   2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs.]
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            Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness
            and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying,
            flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Beggarly \Beg"gar*ly\, adv.
   In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of
   a beggar.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

beggarly
    adj 1: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly
           existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: beggarly,
           mean]
    2: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve
       contempt [syn: beggarly, mean]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

142 Moby Thesaurus words for "beggarly":
   abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, backscratching, bare-handed,
   base, base-minded, beggared, beneath contempt, bereaved, bereft,
   bootlicking, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, cowering,
   crawling, cringing, crouching, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved,
   deprived, despicable, dirty, disadvantaged, disgusting,
   empty-handed, execrable, famished, fawning, flagrant, flattering,
   fleeced, footlicking, foul, fulsome, gaudy, ghettoized, gimcracky,
   grave, gross, groveling, half-starved, hangdog, heinous, ignoble,
   ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished,
   in need, in rags, in want, indigent, ingratiating, little, low,
   low-down, low-minded, lumpen, mangy, mealymouthed, mean, measly,
   mendicant, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, necessitous, needy,
   nefarious, obeisant, obnoxious, obsequious, odious, on bended knee,
   on relief, on short commons, out at elbows, paltry, parasitic,
   pathetic, pauperized, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor,
   poverty-stricken, prostrate, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad,
   scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shoddy,
   shorthanded, small, sniveling, sorry, sponging, squalid, starved,
   starveling, starving, stripped, sycophantic, timeserving,
   toadeating, toadying, toadyish, trashy, truckling, trumpery,
   two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
   underfed, undermanned, undernourished, underprivileged, unfed,
   unmentionable, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, valueless,
   vile, worthless, wretched