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- adjective dominated by
disease .
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Examples
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As a bonus, all of the people who don't know people living with HIV basically, most of the population actually will get your message loud and clear: that people with HIV are scary, disease-ridden lepers who must be shoved out of society.
Sean Strub: 'It's Never Just HIV' Ad Campaign Oversimplifies the Issue Sean Strub 2011
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As a bonus, all of the people who don't know people living with HIV basically, most of the population actually will get your message loud and clear: that people with HIV are scary, disease-ridden lepers who must be shoved out of society.
Sean Strub: 'It's Never Just HIV' Ad Campaign Oversimplifies the Issue Sean Strub 2011
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The inevitable sequel to a successful deportation effort would be a stream of news stories about men and women (and, naturally, their children) who had carved out modest livelihoods for themselves in America and were now starving, disease-ridden, quasi-enslaved or dead in Mexico, Haiti, Belize, Somalia or Bangladesh.
Immigration 2010
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The Virginians returned early in April, starving, ragged, and disease-ridden.17
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Al believes that if 99. 999999% of Americans die, and the remainder languish in primitive, disease-ridden subsistance, we have had what we need.
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Like I would ever put disease-ridden poor people in the pages of this magazine. —
'Ugly Betty' Bites: The best lines from Betty's makeover premiere episode! | EW.com 2009
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Many such areas are too remote, undeveloped or disease-ridden for the average tourist, precluding their use for photographic safaris.
Panthera: Hunting Lions: Unpalatable but Necessary for Conservation? Panthera 2011
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Many such areas are too remote, undeveloped or disease-ridden for the average tourist, precluding their use for photographic safaris.
Panthera: Hunting Lions: Unpalatable but Necessary for Conservation? Panthera 2011
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The Virginians returned early in April, starving, ragged, and disease-ridden.17
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The Virginians returned early in April, starving, ragged, and disease-ridden.17
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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