beggarly vs unnoble

beggarly

adj
  • inadequate or meagre. 

  • Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging. 

  • In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. 

adv
  • In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. 

unnoble

adj
  • Not noble; ignoble; base. 

  • Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily. 

verb
  • To make (someone or something) no longer noble 

How often have the words beggarly and unnoble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )