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Poverty-ridden

adj

Adjective

1
Filled with or plagued by poverty. place, usually
"Fresh from the poverty-ridden hillsides of Connaught, these rich grazing-lands, comfortable houses, magnificent demesnes and castles, are unspeakably grateful to the eye and healing to the spirit."
2
Suffering from poverty.
"[…] a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant!"
3
During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.
"1915, Cecily Sidgwick (as “Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick”), Mr. Broom and His Brother, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 7, p. 33, Friends soon tell each other their troubles, and she found that Carry’s haunting fear was of a poverty-ridden old age."

From poverty + ridden.

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