the dispossessed

noun

: people whose land, possessions, etc., have been taken away from them

helping the poor and the dispossessed

Examples of the dispossessed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Naipaul remained fascinated with what kinds of visions drew the dispossessed toward messiah-like figures. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026

Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026

Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden joined thousands in praising Jackson as an ambassador of hope, and a champion for the poor and the dispossessed. — NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026

These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated. — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025

His was a papacy focused on the margins, on the dispossessed, and the most vulnerable. — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025

October 7 shattered this paradigm, as the state-of-the-art nation was briefly overthrown by the crude weapons of the dispossessed. — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2024

Routine and cliché, frustration and anger, despair and fatigue weigh heavily on the dispossessed, and impinge on the relationship at the movie’s center. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024

As for the voices of the enslaved and the dispossessed, the island is unsettlingly silent. — Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024

Rhymes for the dispossessed

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