poorer
较差的,更穷,较差,较穷
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poor·er, poor·est.
- : having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- : Law. dependent upon charity or public support.
- : meagerly supplied or endowed with resources or funds.
- : characterized by or showing poverty.
- : deficient or lacking in something specified: a region poor in mineral deposits.
- : faulty or inferior, as in construction: poor workmanship.
- : lacking abundance or productivity: poor soil.
- : excessively lean or emaciated, as cattle.
- : of an inferior, inadequate, or unsatisfactory kind: poor health.
- : lacking in skill, ability, or training: a poor cook.
- : deficient in moral excellence; cowardly, abject, or mean.
- : scanty, meager, or paltry in amount or number: a poor audience.
- : humble; modest: They shared their poor meal with a stranger.
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Examples
“This is tragic because nobody needs good policing more than poorer neighborhoods with higher crime rates,” Obama said.
It captured a worldview and fate that I hope the people from the poorer parts of the state can one day escape.
Another group more likely to be poorer than others is young adults aged 18 to 24.
Much smaller, poorer countries are opening their gates for refugees from violence-torn parts of the world.
She paints the current rodent situation as more than a foul inconvenience, and one that is a particular blight on poorer areas.
Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.
I wish the thing were over and done with, though it left you a few thousand pounds the poorer.
Those were busy days in the history of the “Anchor,” and the constant stream of poorer wayfarers added to the bustle.
The money she saved by this great frugality she distributed among the poorer prisoners.
These are the poorer class of models—the riff-raff of the Quarter—who get anywhere from a few sous to a few francs for a séance.