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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disenfranchised
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ South Africa finally extended rights to the disenfranchised black majority.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from the domestic danger of a disenfranchised population, there is an external danger also.
▪ But then the disenfranchised men waged war and the ensuing chaos is with us still.
▪ Candidates found guilty of malpractice were liable to be disenfranchised and banned from holding elective office for 10 years.
▪ Some disenfranchised minority voters also complain of police harassment.
▪ They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
disenfranchised

disenfranchised \disenfranchised\ adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.

Syn: disfranchised, voteless.

Wiktionary
disenfranchised
  1. Not represented; especially, not having the right to vote. v

  2. (en-past of: disenfranchise)

WordNet
disenfranchised

adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote [syn: disfranchised, voteless] [ant: enfranchised]

Usage examples of "disenfranchised".

For instance, he is always getting his paintings of disenfranchised American youths hung up in the caf.

You go around making these paintings of these disenfranchised kids—and they are really great, don’t get me wrong.

Despite the fact that Lakesh often referred to Cerberus as a sanctuary, Kane was fairly certain he had never envisioned it as a general refuge for the disenfranchised of the Out-lands.

If they're disenfranchised, he encourages their rage, not their liberation.

Nonspinners good, bad, and indifferent-along with some heavily disenfranchised and a small lunatic fringe.

You can't change a disenfranchised people into a politically aware society in a month or two, it takes years.

Think of it, a downtrodden indigent from a disenfranchised people-in rags and maybe holding my stomach from hunger.

The poor and disenfranchised take to the streets, while the rich and computer-equipped, safe in their bedrooms, chatter over their modems.

Will the electronic frontier be another Land of Opportunity-- or an armed and monitored enclave, where the disenfranchised snuggle on their cardboard at the locked doors of our houses of justice?

Will the electronic frontier be another Land of Opportunity--or an armed and monitored enclave, where the disenfranchised snuggle on their cardboard at the locked doors of our houses of justice?

Attacks on the Council's authority, like threats to the Council's safety, came not from the police, but from disenfranchised political groups on Earth - lib ertarians who opposed both UMC and UMCP hege mony.

Therefore in complex, almost indefinable ways the guttergangs began to lose their mystique, their attraction for the lost and disenfranchised of the planet.

The voices he searched out would not be in the cities but out somewhere beyond them across a widening gap, among the have-nots, the small, the disenfranchised and vengeful.

His disadvantaged, disenfranchised American counterpart is offered not only the Jew but the Negro and Catholic—together with any group, way of life or system of belief not harmonious with his own, stamped with the label enemy in large red letters.