dispossessed

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If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of.

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  1. adjective Deprived of possession.
  2. adjective Spiritually impoverished or alienated.

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  • His father was passed among relatives and grew up with the bitterness of the dispossessed-a bitterness the father passed on to the son and the son passed on to his own children. —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • But a sister city project could be a productive way to build a larger movement that resists the neocolonial impulses of governments, corporations, and NGOs that either feed off the misery of the dispossessed or generally refrain from offering sustainable projects that instead focuses on the needs of those rebuilding their lives. —  body on the line
  • If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of. —  VDARE.com - Latest Articles
  • How it is the magnet for the dispossessed and even put up a Statue of Liberty to beckon them. —  Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog
  • When Lulucy escapes into the titular forest (a traditional refuge for the dispossessed noble), she and Mellow outwit their captors using her knowledge of the landscape from her childhood, demonstrating the usual aristocratic claim to —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
 

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/dɪspəˈzɛst/
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