excluded

comparative more excluded · superlative most excluded

1. Kept out; not permitted to enter or be a part; shunned.

   I was feeling very excluded from the group of people I had been mixing with for the past two years .

   2012, Dennis J.Dodt, Intimate Expression: An Orphan’s Experience of Healing, page xi

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   For community development, the racism resulting from the global economic system is all too frequently played out in those communities that are most excluded – inner-city neighbourhoods and public housing estates.

   2005, Paul Henderson, Including the excluded, page 94

   The figures also show a persistent pattern; black pupils are three and a half times more likely than their white peers to be excluded and boys are more likely to be excluded than girls; children with special needs are likely to be more excluded than others.

   2013, Kay Andrews, Extra Learning, page 198

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of exclude