0 A poverty-stricken person or place is suffering from the effects of being extremely poor:
My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.
Very few westerners ever trouble themselves seriously over the poverty-stricken conditions of the third-world people whose cheap labor helps support their lives.
These include poverty-stricken groups of the population and less economically rewarding fields of intervention, such as health prevention and promotion (5).
Some bricks made with very little straw are hurled in the direction of those who present ' conventional stereotypes ' of nuns as poverty-stricken and incompetent.
These children may have been sent back to poverty-stricken communities where each extra mouth to feed is a potential burden.
Degenerationists were also convinced that in an ideal world poverty-stricken members of the population would either voluntarily or semi-compulsorily return to what reformers depicted as warmly supportive rural communities.
Of 30 men over 60 years of age, a mere 3 were listed as 'poverty-stricken ' and only one was explicitly supported to some degree by the poor chest.
The poverty-stricken were all widowers.
We will defend the doctors and anybody else who show leniency and kindness to the poverty-stricken poor.
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