disenfranchised
Example Sentences
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In our alleged golden age of TV, comedy has been Cordelia, the disenfranchised child of a grim medium.
Now, she wants people, "especially young women", to know that when you feel "disenfranchised and powerless, there is real power in learning how to ask questions".
From BBC
The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.
From Los Angeles Times
Her first album Horses was for the disenfranchised and the shunned.
From BBC
Some voters in Zanzibar felt disenfranchised and said they would "leave that section blank" on the presidential ballot.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
