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Definition of Overprivileged
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overprivileged
Literary usage of Overprivileged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"65; Nat Hentoff, "Our'overprivileged' Prisoners," Washington Post, March 29, 1997.
Unfortunately, stories of legitimate inmate lawsuits—challenging ..."
2. Analytics of Literature: A Manual for the Objective Study of English Prose by Lucius Adelno Sherman (1893)
"There is but one class of human beings equally deserving of pity with those who
have become jaded and aimless and dispirited, because overprivileged, ..."
3. The Church at Play: A Manual for Directors of Social and Recreational Life by Norman Egbert Richardson (1922)
"The task of the church is not to supply recreation and still more recreation for
young people who already are overprivileged in this regard. ..."
4. Swing Dance: Justice O'Connor and the Michigan Muddle by Robert Zelnick (2004)
"... far more honestly—the very diversity of outlook and experience that Bowen and
Bok so cherished as the cargo of overprivileged African American students? ..."
5. An Essay on the Laws of Real Property in Guernsey: And Commentary on the by Peter Jeremie (1841)
"... exists in another shape, and for that reason is doomed by an unjustifiable
usage to be set apart as the property of an already overprivileged creditor. ..."
6. ... Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1909)
"... Its natur :imul thus creates :L11 overprivileged type of music, may be
apprehended by foreign spirit ..."
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