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hardship collapse: something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"

needy collapse: needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"; demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree

embarrassment collapse: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"; the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public; the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"

underprivileged collapse: lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society

privation collapse: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"; a state of extreme poverty

cockney collapse: the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London; a native of the east end of London; relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"; characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"

deprived collapse: marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"

indigence collapse: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

polite collapse: showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.

bereaved collapse: a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved; "the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of"; sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"

titled collapse: having or given a name or title; "many paintings are titled simply `Untitled'"

poverty collapse: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

distress collapse: the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"; psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"; extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress"; a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"; cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

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