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disenfranchised

[ UK /dˌɪsɛnfɹˈɑːnt‍ʃa‍ɪzd/ ]
[ US /dɪsɪnˈfɹænˌtʃaɪzd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
    disenfrenchised masses took to the streets
    labor was voiceless

How To Use disenfranchised In A Sentence

  • Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
  • The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
  • She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
  • The Party is dead and working class people have been cruelly disenfranchised.
  • Maybe it's time for both the globalists and anti-globalists to consider what the poorer and disenfranchised have already worked out.
  • I had one reader who told me he was reading it outside one day when a ned came up to him -- "ned" being Scots for ... um ... think as disenfranchised as you can get -- the juvenile delinquents from our equivalent of the projects, shell-suited gangs into Buckfast and hard drugs, petty theft and hassling strangers, the type of person that is to your average SF/Fantasy reader as a hyena is to a gazelle. More Aesthetics
  • It has disenfranchised many people from the sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the future, after global warming has made cities the only safe places to live, large sections of the world are closed to disenfranchised people who have to live in deserts.
  • And if there is a referendum in Britain it will be so close as to leave the issue undecided and half the country feeling resentful and disenfranchised. Times, Sunday Times
  • Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
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