Disadvantaged

//ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒd//

"Disadvantaged" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Many disabled people of all stripes are further disadvantaged by a culture that fails to understand, let alone meet, their needs.

This high school wants to favour students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

She's teaching children from disadvantaged families how to read.

Many of these disadvantaged children had never seen a book before.

You were disadvantaged.

They were disadvantaged.

If you are economically disadvantaged or have limited financial means, how has this adversity shaped you?

There are not many games that end with checkmate. What happens most often is abandonment, the explicit recognition of defeat, when the disadvantaged player is convinced that he can no longer afford salvation.

The relevance of sport as a factor for integration of socially disadvantaged groups cannot be underestimated.

He lived in a disadvantaged neighborhood.

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Devon's economy may be more broadly based, but like Cornwall it is still disadvantaged compared with other counties of southern England.

And it gets better. If 10% of those 17,000 new jobs employ people from a disadvantaged background, the value rises to £8.3bn.

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