inadequate or meagre.
Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
Not noble; ignoble; base.
Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.
To make (someone or something) no longer noble