Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking the standard of living and opportunities enjoyed by most people in a society.
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- adjective
Deprived of theopportunities andadvantages of othermembers of one'scommunity . - noun A deprived person; deprived people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
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Examples
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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.
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MR. RANDALL: Every phase of the service to the underprivileged is a phase of business obligation.
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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.
James Napoli: Tea Party Launches Occupy Skid Row Movement James Napoli 2011
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SHAWCO is a student run organisation at UCT that does outstanding work in underprivileged communities throughout Cape Town.
Archive 2009-07-01 HayleyM 2009
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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.
James Napoli: Tea Party Launches Occupy Skid Row Movement James Napoli 2011
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“DirectBuy’s contribution will eventually help hundreds of students in underprivileged schools.”
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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.
Worse Than You Think 2007
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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.
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I am not denying that there are a lot of people out there with financial problems, I was denying that they are "underprivileged".
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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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!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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