adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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poverty-stricken neighborhoods
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At the moment, many poverty-stricken communities are experiencing a shortage of teachers.
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His photographs show vividly the lives of poverty-stricken families in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A man was walking down a street, and the street was narrow, mean, full of poverty-stricken houses.
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Everything conspires, therefore, to isolate and ignore that poverty-stricken world and leave it to its own devices.
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Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.
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His security police are no strangers to intimidation when it comes to striking fear into Ciskei's 850,000 poverty-stricken people.
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I wandered through a poverty-stricken village in the countryside, flies swarming over me under a baking sun.
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The poverty-stricken could then take over the deserted metropolises.
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You drank because you were poverty-stricken , Mamma, both in pocket and in spirit.