佗わび人びと

noun

lonely person; forlorn person; poverty-stricken person

Literary and old-fashioned term for someone who is lonely, unwanted, or living in wretched poverty. Often carries a poetic or classical tone.

• 彼かれは世よを捨すてた佗わび人びとのように暮くらしていた。

  He lived like a forlorn hermit who had abandoned the world.

• 古ふるい和わ歌かには、わびびととしての寂さびしさが詠よまれている。

  In old waka poems, the loneliness of a forlorn person is expressed.