deprived
IPA: dɪprˈaɪvd
adjective
- Subject to deprivation; poor.
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Examples of "deprived" in Sentences
- The men deprived their money.
- The community deprived the members' rights.
- The thief deprived the rights of the people.
- He was deprived of these three preferments in 1559.
- His back is there, but it is deprived of the gaze of the subject.
- His father was deprived of the title under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917.
- It is also engaged in activities for the welfare of the poor and the deprived.
- But more than ever we need to get kids in deprived areas – actually in any area – involved in sport.
- Civil War period, you had the white people who were terribly poor and what you call deprived now, but none of them ever knew that word and didn't have that
- The report praised the work of some state schools in deprived areas, which had instituted much more rigorous discipline and, as a result, had seen a marked increase in standards.
- While Clarke argued that educational reforms under the coalition government had abandoned Labour's aim to improve standards in deprived areas, the education secretary, Michael Gove, speaking at the same event, said Labour had vacated the centre ground and would find it hard to be re-elected.
- Dr. LACEY: And in some cases, people even change what they eat, because many times, what you'll see in a person who's sleep deprived is they will tend to snack more on high-carb types of foods and snacks in order to kind of buttress their general energy level in an attempt to kind of self-stimulate and keep themselves more awake.
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