mendicancy

1. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
   尽管难以用笔墨形容，可它真真够得上乞丐帮这个词儿。
2. Militant mendicancy over the nuclear issue demanding to be paid for every tiny step towards a distant disarmament, then backsliding and trying the same trick again will no longer wash.
   平壤在核问题上进行的“强行乞讨”先要求国际社会为该国向遥远的去核迈出的每一小步提供经援，然后退回到原有立场并故伎重施不会再有效果。

noun

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

   Synonym:    beggarybegging

2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
   1. they were reduced to mendicancy

   Synonym:    beggarymendicity