indigents
- plural of indigent.
Example Sentences
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“The idea that we’re ‘just public defenders’ and not going to try our hardest, sometimes that exists,” said Travis Finck, deputy director of the North Dakota Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents.
From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2020
Indigents sometimes die out of state, don’t they?
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012
Indigents often fare even worse elsewhere, says Lumbard.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first free school ever opened for colored children in the United States was the "Ecole Des Orphelins Indigents," a School for Indigent Orphans opened in 1840.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
