underprivileged

From under- +‎ privileged.

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underprivileged (comparative more underprivileged, superlative most underprivileged)

1. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.
   • 1996, “After the Smoke is Clear”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah:

     Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage

• disenfranchised

underprivileged (plural underprivileged)

1. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

• "underprivileged" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 324.