The Collaborative International Dictionary
disfranchised \disfranchised\ adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote. Opposite of enfranchised.
Syn: disenfranchised, voteless.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: disfranchise)
WordNet
adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote [syn: disenfranchised, voteless] [ant: enfranchised]
Usage examples of "disfranchised".
Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.
The systematic program that disfranchised these legal voters, directed by the offices of Florida’s Governor Jeb Bush and Secretary of State Katherine Harris, was so quiet, subtle and intricate that if not for George W.
Nero had made the usual affidavit that he had acted in accordance with the laws, he went up to the treasury and amongst the names of those whom he left disfranchised he placed that of his colleague.
Nero, he said, would be disfranchised, and if there were any precedent for disfranchising the same man twice he would have inserted his name specially.
Thus, in Idaho, she has disfranchised her sister of the street, and declared all women of "lewd character" unfit to vote.
The investigation into the purged voter lists was reported in The Nation, "Florida's 'Disappeared Voters': Disfranchised by the GOP," Gregory Palast, February 5, 2001.