Synonyms for disenfranchised
dis·en·fran·chised

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1. disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, votelessadjective

   deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote

   "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"

   Synonyms:
   aphonic, breathed, disfranchised, voiceless, hard, surd, voteless, unvoiced

   Antonyms:
   enfranchised

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1. List of paraphrases for "disenfranchised":

   dispossessed, marginalized, disadvantaged, disillusioned

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1. Rahul Garabadu:

   There is a direct correlation between the state’s sweeping anti-voter law, S.B. 202, and Cobb County’s failure to get over a thousand registered voters their absentee ballots, the anti-voter law put tremendous pressure on elections officials to accomplish a number of responsibilities under a very tight deadline, and in Cobb County, that pressure has resulted in a huge error and hundreds of voters at risk of being disenfranchised.

2. Justin Jones:

   I represent 78,000 people, and when I came to the well that day, I was not standing for myself, i was standing for those young people … many of whom can’t even vote yet, many of whom are disenfranchised. But all of whom are terrified by the continued trend of mass shooting plaguing our state and plaguing this nation.

3. Helen Keller:

   Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Tonight, many of us are going to give our support to a candidate for president who has done more than any other candidate in living memory to bring together the disenfranchised, the hungry, the poor, the workers who are being thrown out of their decent-paying jobs and the farmers who are being thrown off of their land, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to place for nomination this evening the name of one of the great leaders of our time and a man who has waged the most courageous and exciting political campaigns in the modern history of this nation. I place for nomination, with a great deal of personal pride, the name of Jesse Jackson.

5. Helen Keller:

   Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.