underprivileged

comparative more underprivileged · superlative most underprivileged

1. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.

   Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage

   1996, “After the Smoke is Clear”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah

1. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

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   Since that time, both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations have seen an enormous outpouring of caritative agencies. Nuns and monks made teaching and care for the underprivileged a central part of their vocation; devout men and women have founded and devoted their lives to institutions as far removed as Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and the Salvation Army.

   2004, Phyllis G. Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 183