Synonyms for begging
beg·ging

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1. beggary, begging, mendicancynoun

   a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

   Synonyms:
   mendicity, beggary, mendicancy

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1. • Solicitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "begging":

   beg, vagrancy, mendacity, beggars

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1. Donald Trump:

   President Obama wanted to meet, and Chairman Kim would not meet Chairman Kim. The President Obama administration was begging for a meeting. They were begging for meetings constantly. And Chairman Kim would not meet with Chairman Kim.

2. Donald Trump:

   I'm not just justifying Putin, but you watch, he'll get bogged down there. He'll be there. He'll spend a fortune. He'll be begging to get out. Everybody that's gone to the Middle East has had nothing but problems.

3. Jane Barter:

   No one knows that at home, in the middle of the night when my family is sleeping, that I ’m up and I ’m dry heaving and I ’m crying and I ’m begging and I ’m just online investigating this whole thing Jane Barter.

4. Sheila Jackson Lee:

   We can't imagine there's not someone out there with information, so the family is begging for people with any kind of information, we don't know what might've happened, but we know that she's a loving mother, and she has three beautiful children that want her to come home.

5. Hosea Williams:

   It touched me when it happened in real time, because I could see George Floyd begging to live. Begging to live. Let me breathe. They had a knee on George Floyd neck and the other two( officers) just standing there, can you imagine if that had been a Black policeman on a White man's neck ? You can bet the nation would have been turned upside down.