as in impoverished
lacking money or material possessions
because he was indigent, the court appointed a lawyer to represent him
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as in pauper
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Recent Examples of indigent
Robert Greene, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
The county’s budget for indigent defense increased by 60 percent, or an additional $115,000, for felony and misdemeanor cases both.
—Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Yet over the past two decades, state auditors have repeatedly noted the county was failing to adequately provide indigent counsel.
—Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
The city has yanked the contract to represent indigent New Yorkers in Queens from a troubled non-profit which cut ties in February with its founder and long-time executive director.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
In response to a lawsuit, the county in 2020 agreed to increase budget allocations for indigent defense.
—Robert Greene, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
The county’s budget for indigent defense increased by 60 percent, or an additional $115,000, for felony and misdemeanor cases both.
—Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Yet over the past two decades, state auditors have repeatedly noted the county was failing to adequately provide indigent counsel.
—Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
The city has yanked the contract to represent indigent New Yorkers in Queens from a troubled non-profit which cut ties in February with its founder and long-time executive director.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indigent
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Eagerly drinking the Kool-Aid is Simone DeWitt (Alcock), a formerly impoverished but deeply ambitious upstart from Buffalo who gets a taste of the lifestyle of the rich and famous as Michaela's uppity assistant.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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That could mean removing spending from public school meal programs for impoverished children, removing access to health care to people with developmental disabilities, or cutting Social Security payments to even the deficit.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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Alvarez is the pauper of the group, with Judge and Soto combining for $1.125 billion in salary over the lives of their contracts.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Chelsea are hardly paupers domestically — no Premier League team is nowadays — but there’s a clear financial advantage in finishing higher up the table.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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The product was released in 2023 to a poor reception, and discontinued before the company began winding down operations in February.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
24 May 2025
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The original doesn’t go that deeply into it, but this poor girl was essentially forced to be a teen mom at this time in her life when all of her friends would be graduating high school and dating and thinking about their futures.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Charting a divided league’s haves and have-nots Ranking the top 25 college football teams: Who’s biggest winner after the spring portal window?—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The conversation about baseball’s haves and have-nots bled into the offseason, as the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets tossed around hundreds of millions while nine teams declined to sign any player to a multiyear contract.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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“Indigent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indigent. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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