indigence
Usage
What are other ways to say indigence?
Indigence denotes a severely impoverished condition marked by hardship and the lack of any of life’s comforts: reduced to a life of indigence. Destitution, a somewhat literary word, implies a state of having absolutely none of the necessities of life: widespread destitution in countries at war. Poverty denotes serious lack of the means for proper existence: living in a state of extreme poverty.
Example Sentences
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The challenges of Maloney’s background — familial trauma, poor medical care, occasional indigence — form part of the back story, but they are ultimately beside the point of this book.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022
Oetken said his ruling on Parnas’ indigence was in response to a letter from his lawyer stating he could no longer pay the costs of his defense.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021
Hinkle also gave Florida wide latitude to devise a legal process for people eligible for voting rights restoration to prove their indigence.
From Slate • May 26, 2020
They “punctured,” he said, Life magazine’s “conception of indigence as an abstract lure to an ideological foe” — Communism.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2019
Bobby, perhaps because of the indigence of his childhood, hated the idea of people making money off his name.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
