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disinherited

Meaning

of Disinherit

Source: Webster's dictionary

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In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history. John Howard

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. Jane Addams

They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres. Clifford D. Simak

But he is product of a dislocated society; he is a dispossessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amid the greatest possible plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out. Richard Wright

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs. Adam Gopnik

We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality. Martin Luther King Jr.

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