poverty-stricken
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of poverty-stricken
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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He was born as Archie Leach in Horfield in 1904, and later escaped a poverty-stricken childhood to join a circus aged 14.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
The decision means there will be more preventable deaths in the 17 poverty-stricken counties along Interstate 95 that constitute the Corridor of Shame, Brown said.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2024
Porter had dropped out of junior college and entered the Baltimore police academy in 2012, hoping to restore trust in law enforcement in the same poverty-stricken neighborhoods where he grew up.
From Slate • May 24, 2024
Such vilification is proved off the mark by the fact that poverty-stricken Mississippi has relatively few homeless people.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024
I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates; no half-naked children and barefooted women, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough, Easton, St. Michael’s, and Baltimore.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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