as in beggars
a young person who is thin and appears homeless or impoverished
the sad sight of waifs on the street
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In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.—
George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
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In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.—
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
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“Waifs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waifs. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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