impoverished

Then, as today, the epidemic fell most heavily on the inhabitants of impoverished inner-city areas.

Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished.

Densely populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived.

My office is located such that I have many patients from both affluent and impoverished communities.

Atlanta soon flourished, becoming the resurgent urban center of an otherwise impoverished South.

Impoverished defendants were frequently ordered to pay fines that were triple their monthly income.

The companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.

In the first place the companies saw their stock become rapidly impoverished, and themselves on the verge of bankruptcy.

A million immigrants came from impoverished Europe in the four succeeding years, begging for freedom and a place to live.

He was translated to the archbishopric of York, leaving his bishopric in a very impoverished state.

She was weary of the doctor's shop-talk, the impoverished blood of conversation, the dislocated joint of utterance.