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underprivileged
adjective as in poor
Example Sentences
Most of the girls are from poor and underprivileged families and don't have to pay any subscription fees.
A video of a fashion shoot in India has gone viral and unexpectedly turned a group of underprivileged school children into local celebrities.
His lifelong dedication to helping underprivileged and at-risk children was at least as responsible for his enshrinement and for the many humanitarian awards he received.
In a 2017 essay in the New York Times, Vance wrote about identifying parts of himself in former Presidents Clinton and Obama, who also grew up in underprivileged environments, largely raised by their grandparents.
“It gave me unbelievable drive,” he says of the underprivileged circumstances in which he was raised by a single mom, a onetime aspiring actor who worked as a nightclub promoter in the 1980s London scene.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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