Mendicant in a sentence as a noun

I'd rather be a truthful mendicant than a lavishly rich liar.

But, instead, I have to wait like a mendicant for them to get around to dribbling it out to me. Maybe this is what Sterling was talking about.

In Spain no language was forbidden as was in France and Jews were expelled because- The pressure of mendicant orders.- The pope.

Mendicant in a sentence as an adjective

This sort of arrangement could be very handy for a programmer-mendicant or compulsive volunteer.

Economically it is a mendicant state, relying almost entirely on mainland Australia to prop it up.

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Mendicant definitions

noun

a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

See also: friar

noun

a pauper who lives by begging

See also: beggar

adjective

practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"