Example Sentences

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Many American priests are overworked, demoralized by loneliness and scandal, underrespected.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the U.S. both scientists and teachers are relatively underpaid and underrespected, he wrote, and there are few incentives for the brightest youngsters to take up scientific careers.

From Time Magazine Archive