underprivileged

From under- + privileged.

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underprivileged (comparative more underprivileged, superlative most underprivileged)

1. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.
   • 1996, “After the Smoke is Clear”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah:

     Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage

• disenfranchised

underprivileged (plural underprivileged)

1. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).
   • 2004, Phyllis G. Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia‎^[1], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 183:

     Since that time, both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations have seen an enormous outpouring of caritative agencies. Nuns and monks made teaching and care for the underprivileged a central part of their vocation; devout men and women have founded and devoted their lives to institutions as far removed as Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and the Salvation Army.

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Underprivileged”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 324.