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Underprivileged

adjective
1.
Lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society.





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"Underprivileged" Quotes from Famous Books



... suffering from old inequalities, little changed by vast sporadic remedies. In spite of our efforts and in spite of our talk, we have not weeded out the over privileged and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged. Both of these manifestations of injustice have retarded happiness. No wise man has any intention of destroying what is known as the profit motive; because by the profit motive we mean the right by work to earn a decent livelihood for ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


Words linked to "Underprivileged" :   underclass, deprived, unfortunate, disadvantaged, privileged, poor


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