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neediest

adjective as in deprived, impoverished

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States are balancing their budgets by cutting care for the neediest and paying workers and contractors the least amount possible.

In the past, Romney argued that Pell Grants had grown too fast and had to be limited to the neediest students.

She says 42 percent of the neediest families in Italy have three or more children.

This will add to the already high level of teacher turnover in the neediest districts.

Am I to be deprived of the consolations vouchsafed to the neediest and most wretched?

Others die young leaving their families in the neediest circumstances.

The tempter attacks first the neediest point, the hunger, and in so far the weakest, the likeliest to yield.

It was the poorest and neediest of asylums; and the poor little orphaned wretches—but it is better not to speak of them.

There are no favourites among the pilgrims except, perhaps, the neediest, and to them is given “more abundant honour.”

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to neediest, such as: poor, underprivileged, poverty-stricken, penniless, disadvantaged, and destitute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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