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| injudicious |
lacking in or poor in judgment; rash or unwise. |
| inner city |
the neighborhoods in or closest to the center of a city, usu. old, run-down, and inhabited by poor and disadvantaged people. |
| jalopy |
(informal) an old automobile in poor condition. |
| junky |
(informal) of poor quality or of little worth. [1/2 definitions] |
| lowbred |
characteristic of or showing poor breeding; displaying coarse behavior; rude. [1/2 definitions] |
| malnutrition |
poor or inadequate nutrition. |
| manhood suffrage |
within a nation, the right of all adult men to vote regardless of their status. In the United States in the nineteenth century, the movement within individual states toward manhood suffrage sought to guarantee that poor and propertyless white men would not be denied the vote. This movement succeeded in its particular aims but did nothing to ensure the right to vote for non-whites. Although the Fifteenth Amendment was passed after the Civil War to prevent states from denying the right to vote to anyone based on race, manhood suffrage continued to be denied to non-white adult males in many states. |
| mean2 |
inferior, low in quality, or poor in appearance. [1/5 definitions] |
| mediocre |
of average to poor quality; ordinary. |
| misconduct |
poor or dishonest management, esp. by military or government officials. [1/3 definitions] |
| miser |
a greedy, ungenerous person, esp. one who lives in poor circumstances in order to hoard money. |
| miserable |
pitifully poor or unattractive; wretched. [1/5 definitions] |
| mismanagement |
poor or improper control, direction, or administration. |
| mismatch |
a poor or inappropriate match. [1/2 definitions] |
| misrule |
poor or unwise government. [1/3 definitions] |
| mulligan |
in golf, another drive off the first tee, granted by one's partners after a poor first drive. |
| nonpoor |
combined form of poor. |
| nyctalopia |
abnormally poor eyesight in dim light or darkness; night blindness. |
| off-color |
improper or in poor taste, esp. of humor or innuendo dealing with sex. [1/3 definitions] |
| out at the elbows |
shabby or poor. |
| parody |
a poor or ridiculous attempt at something serious; travesty. [1/3 definitions] |
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