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. Will Trump:

   In two weeks, I'm going to a location, it's going to be in California. Believe it or not, they were begging us to build in San Diego, begging us to build a wall. And we're just in the process of completing a major stretch of many miles of wall. And we're going to have a news conference there just to show people that ... it's really good stuff.

2. Kevin Nicholson:

   Liberal politicians that are begging for apologies are just trying to cover up for their own mistakes and their own missteps.

3. Jordan Peele:

   I used to go to the movie theater and watch horror movies and you know black people, we yell s --- at the screen, i ’d go watch like a Freddy movie and you ’d hear people saying s --- like, ‘ Oh, b ----, get out of the house ’ or ‘ No. no, no -- don’t walk backwards ! ’ or ‘ You’re white -- call the cops ! ’ I got it in my head that there was a missing piece of the conversation. There was a film that we were asking for, begging for that was n’t there for us.

4. Ben Crump:

   In many ways it is worse than Eric Garner because they got their knee on his neck and he is begging, pleading, not one minute... but eight minutes begging them to let him breathe, we cant breathe again in 2020.

5. Louis Ziskin:

   The FDA saw dollar signs. The FDA also saw The FDA had legitimate medical customers who were literally begging for this stuff.