Women and children, especially the poor, are at the bottom. Even the most destitute of men have someone they can abuse -- a woman or a child.
Most cities, for example, have ordinances designed to drive the destitute off the streets by outlawing such necessary activities of daily life as sitting, loitering, sleeping, or lying down.
I had liv'd a dreadful Life, perfectly destitute of the Knowledge and Fear of God.
His mind was destitute of that dread which has been erroneously decried as if it were nothing higher than a man's animal care for his own skin.
He was destitute of human feelings.
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
They are destitute of common sense.
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom.
However, Mr Heathcliff has claimed and kept them in his wife's right and his also: I suppose legally: at any rate, Catherine, destitute of cash and friends, cannot disturb his possession.
Being destitute of cannon, they mounted Quaker guns in the fort.
James 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food.
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