professional victim

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Noun

professional victim (plural professional victims)

1. (derogatory, idiomatic) A person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.
   • 2018, Sam Bracken, Guts: Find Your Greatness, Beat the Odds, Live From Passion:

     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.

2. (derogatory, idiomatic) 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.