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  • 21deprived — adjective Date: circa 1552 marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences < culturally deprived children > …

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  • 22deprived — /di pruyvd /, adj. marked by deprivation; lacking the necessities of life, as adequate food and shelter: a deprived childhood. [1545 55; DEPRIVE + ED2] * * * …

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  • 23deprived —    poor    Literally, having lost something, which is not so for most paupers:     Deprived Families on Increase (headline in Daily Telegraph, 4 October 1983, meaning that there were more poor families rather than the other constructions which&#8230; …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 24deprived — adjective not having the things that are considered to be necessary for a comfortable or happy life: a deprived childhood …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25deprived — adjective society s deprived classes Syn: disadvantaged, underprivileged, poverty stricken, impoverished, poor, destitute, needy, unable to make ends meet …

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  • 26deprived — [dɪˈpraɪvd] adj not having enough of the basic things that you need, for example food or money deprived children in the inner cities[/ex] …

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  • 27deprived — adjective Subject to deprivation; poor …

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  • 28deprived — Synonyms and related words: badly off, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depressed, destitute, disadvantaged, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, motherless, necessitous, needy, on&#8230; …

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  • 29deprived of — Synonyms and related words: bankrupt in, bare of, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bereft of, cut off, denuded, denuded of, destitute of, devoid of, divested, empty of, for want of, forlorn of, in default of, in want of, lacking, minus, missing,&#8230; …

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  • 30deprived — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Economically and socially below standard: backward, depressed, disadvantaged, impoverished, underprivileged. See RICH …

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