What is "indigent"

Usage examples of "indigent".

They passed the biggest tax increase in state history, set up a lottery, and agreed to spend millions more on prisons, indigent health care and water cleanup.

This spring, about 5,500 indigent Floridians will be purposely shut out of a program that offers job skills and child-care benefits instead of straight welfare.

That makes you an indigent, and indigents become property of the city.

What possible social insight can be gained by randomly denying opportunity to some indigents while rewarding others?

But no court would appoint someone to do that, and all three of the inmates were indigent.

All he wanted to do was get away from the Special Group detachment and the madman who was its leader and return to churning out courtsmartial, nonjudicial punishments, and wills and codicils for indigent soldiers.

In the hands of this artist the song became-- There was an aged and indigent African whose cognomen was Uncle Edward, But he is deceased since a remote period, a very remote period.

Cap was referring to the illegal practice of killing indigent sentients and selling their organs to biobanks.

In barbaric and disorderly countries it is almost honourable to be indigent and unquestionably virtuous to give to a beggar, and even in the more or less civilised societies of earth, so many children come into life hopelessly handicapped, that austerity to the poor is regarded as the meanest of mean virtues.

Of course the convent was indigent, and as a result the nuns often went hungry, but Poor Clares consciously chose to live in continual abstinence.

Think of it, a downtrodden indigent from a disenfranchised people-in rags and maybe holding my stomach from hunger.

Auntie Grace used to rent them out-el cheapo-to assorted indigents who always had trouble paying the rent, maybe because they routinely spent the rent money on booze or dope.

Potential recipients include food pantries, homeless shelters, two clinics for the indigent, and a prototype AIDS testing program in Spokane.

Before the end of three years, his example was imitated and surpassed by the empress Sophia, who delivered many indigent citizens from the weight of debt and usury: an act of benevolence the best entitled to gratitude, since it relieves the most intolerable distress.

It is a custom in the province of Manji, with the indigent class of the people, who are unable to support their families, to sell their children to the rich, in order that they may be fed and brought up in a better manner than their own poverty would admit.