charity cases
Those requiring assistance
Charity cases are people or situations requiring charitable aid—those too poor or unfortunate to help themselves.
The term often carries condescension, implying pity rather than respect: I don't want to be treated like a charity case.
Someone might dismiss another as a charity case to suggest they're hopeless or unworthy of serious investment: He's not a real candidate—he's a charity case.
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- needyWanting in essentials
- in needLacking necessary resources
- generosityReadiness to give freely
- compassionConcern for others' distress
helping hand · philanthropy · good cause · donation · giving · orphanhood · stigma · marginalization · dignity · homelessness · soup kitchen · aid · altruism · pro bono · welfare · safety net · patronizing · sob story
- aid recipientsfood stamp users, Medicare recipients, social security recipients, scholarship holders
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
charity casesindependently wealthy
Having unearned sufficient means
breadwinners · wage earners · self-starters · earners · providers
charity casesbenefactors
Givers of aid
philanthropists · donors · patrons · givers · almsgivers
charity casespillars of the community
Respected, influential local figures
VIPs · the elite · high society · movers and shakers · success stories
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