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 Meanings and Examples of INDIGENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
indigent
 a.  poor; experiencing want or need; impoverished
Classic Sentence:
1  Times had changed, money was scarce, but nothing had altered the rule of Southern life that families always made room gladly for indigent or unmarried female relatives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  She had not spirits to notice her in more than a few repulsive looks, but she felt her as a spy, and an intruder, and an indigent niece, and everything most odious.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he established there a free dispensary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
4  She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed herself to indigence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
5  Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
6  One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
7  It is indigence which produces these melancholy human plants.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
8  Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
10  explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
Example Sentence:
1  Someone who is truly indigent can't even afford to buy a pack of cigarettes.