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disfranchised::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disenfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
Examples of disfranchised
disfranchised
By 1940, 600,000 poor whites and 520,000 African Americans had been disfranchised.
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The area also drew many poor, disfranchised people who became subsistence farmers.
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Estimates were that 600,000 whites and 500,000 blacks had been disfranchised.
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African-Americans are no longer fully disfranchised subjects of an oppressive state.
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The Democrats maintained control through white supremacy that disfranchised black voters.
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He traveled to South Carolina and Georgia, but they soon disfranchised black voters, too.
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For example, Alabama had tens of thousands of poor whites disfranchised.
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Provisions which disfranchised African Americans also disfranchised poor whites, however.
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In Texas, it is generally but not always the poor or disfranchised.
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- Disenfranchised: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
- (disfranchise) disenfranchise: deprive of voting rights
- (disfranchisement) the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote
