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deprived
[ dih-prahyvd ]
adjective
- marked by deprivation; lacking the necessities of life, as adequate food and shelter:
a deprived childhood.
deprived
/ dɪˈpraɪvd /
adjective
- lacking adequate food, shelter, education, etc
deprived inner-city areas
Other Words From
- self-de·prived adjective
- unde·prived adjective
Example Sentences
At Rolston Rest, sleep deprived and starving, my feet a mess, I thought of that view.
Sullivan is rather busy these days and probably sleep deprived.
In the end, that might be the thing I love best about my secondary pantry, that it provides me endless pathways to quick and simple dishes that, ultimately, make me feel a little less deprived, a little less stuck.
Attitudes within the party were essentially unchanged; they just put new faces on an old, melanin-deprived product.
Deprived of amplification, he silently stripped down and collapsed onstage.
The Latvian government deprived him of citizenship for such activity.
Ebony had been 12 when her mother was suddenly deprived of her livelihood.
Ironically, the weather front deprived the passengers on Flight 630 of further Internet access.
A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
From a sense of justice, I hastened to remunerate those who had been deprived of their coign of vantage, but, alas!
Freed from his presence, Black Sheep resolved that he should no longer be deprived of his allowance of pleasure-reading.
When he was good for a week, he drew good-conduct pay; and when he was bad, he was deprived of his good-conduct-stripe.
On a few previous occasions she had been completely deprived of any desire to finish her dinner.
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