depravation

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"In Invergordon we have areas of social depravation but no funding to put into anything," she said.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

The new lawsuit alleges negligence and the depravation of benefits, based on the emotional or financial support that Hutchins previously provided to younger sister Svetlana Zemko and parents Olga Solovey and Anatolii Androsovych.

From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023

For so many people, scholars and members of the general public, the African American experience is one primarily characterized by trauma, pain, anxiety, pathology, depravation.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

Wallenda, who has made successful walks across Niagara Falls and above Times Square, said he has been training with an oxygen depravation mask to mirror the conditions above the volcano.

From Reuters • Feb. 27, 2020

While some exhibit a convict colony as depraved beyond all examples of depravation, others lower the standard of human virtue, and not only extenuate its evils but magnify its worth.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John