underprivileged
IPA: ˈʌndɝprˈɪvɫɪdʒd
noun
- A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).
adjective
- Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.
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Examples of "underprivileged" in Sentences
- “DirectBuy’s contribution will eventually help hundreds of students in underprivileged schools.”
- MR. RANDALL: Every phase of the service to the underprivileged is a phase of business obligation.
- SHAWCO is a student run organisation at UCT that does outstanding work in underprivileged communities throughout Cape Town.
- I am not denying that there are a lot of people out there with financial problems, I was denying that they are "underprivileged".
- Proponents of educational choice tend to focus on the underprivileged, which is understandable given that low-income kids are overrepresented in failing inner-city public schools.
- The group's stated hope is that their movement will spread to cities nationwide and alert America to the fact that the "thin-cats" as they are calling the underprivileged need to be given a serious wake-up call.
- To say someone is underprivileged suggests that there are privileges to which everyone is entitled, and I think you can see the term underprivileged gradually leading to the sense of entitlement that we have today.
- He talks about the difficulty he was having fitting in because he looked black but had a white mother and was not raised underprivileged, which is exactly why he kept choosing radical friends, to prove his authenticity with those he was trying to impress.
- By the United States Constitution (oh wait, my bad, I forgot that you don't believe in it), Americans are entitled to success, they are entitled to equal opportunity to succeed - which your "underprivileged" underclass could do, if only they would lose the entitlement mentality and get off of welfare and get into the workforce and actually WORK for a living instead relying on government handouts!
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