Meaning of professional victim | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.
   derogatory, idiomatic
2. A person who sets himself or herself up to be an accident victim in order to collect insurance payments or compensation payments, or to get other benefits.
   derogatory, idiomatic

Examples

“These professional victims get a lot of mileage out of their pain. Even though they complain that the price of change is so painful, they never really pay that price because it's too profitable for them not to.”

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