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单词 indigent
释义
indigentin‧di‧gent /ˈɪndɪdʒənt/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINindigent
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French, Latin, present participle of indigere ‘to need’
Examples
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  • Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to indigent people with no money.
  • Nevertheless, in fact as well as in fiction, even those almost totally indigent retained their pride.
  • Poverty was merely the lot of the indigent.
  • Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.
  • They hardly imagined that there were so many indigent, yearning, crooked, canny inheritors on the earth.
  • Was this some indigent artist he had picked up with in Paris?
very poor
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