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marginalized
[ mahr-juh-nl-ahyzd ]
adjective
- placed in a position of little or no importance, influence, or power:
Technology has the power to amplify the voices of marginalized communities and strengthen our democracy.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of marginalize ( def ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of marginalized1
Example Sentences
Costume designer Celeste Jennings illustrates their differences through clothing choices that reflect Sade’s more marginalized status and Mina’s more assimilated reality.
The city may end up spending more on lawsuits filed by firefighters from marginalized groups, she said.
As a function of the race-wealth gap, African-Americans, Hispanics and Latinos, Native Americans and members of other marginalized communities have even less in savings than the average white American.
“My intention was to show people the courage it takes to be a person who’s been marginalized and to still love yourself,” said López over a Zoom call.
“How much contempt is stirred up at times toward the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants!” he said in his Easter address, shortly before his death.
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