"severely disadvantaged" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or group of people who are lacking the necessary resources or opportunities to achieve success in life. For example, "The small East African nation is home to many severely disadvantaged people who are struggling to find basic necessities like food and water."
Families will be severely disadvantaged, some almost £400 a week worse off.
"Individuals with very low literacy and numeracy are severely disadvantaged in the labour market".
There are enough novels describing the experiences of the severely disadvantaged to make the inevitable storyline immediately apparent.
The government says children in such families are severely disadvantaged as they are often surrounded by drugs, drink or domestic violence.
Lord Justice Wall, an appeal court judge, said: "Women cohabitees, in particular, are severely disadvantaged by being unable to claim maintenance and having their property rights determined by the conventional laws of trusts". Divorce doesn't seem much better.
Unless the remainder of the promised $30bn is rapidly made available, poor countries could be severely disadvantaged and made more vulnerable to the impact of potential disasters such as storms and floods, she said.
This meant that for centuries anyone accused of treason found themselves severely legally disadvantaged, a situation which lasted until the late 17th century, when several years of politically motivated treason charges made against Whig politicians prompted the introduction of the Treason Act of 1695.
The African-American participants in the survey project were found to be severely socioeconomically disadvantaged.
As you recall, I explained that Moody's did change its rating methodology such that all CDOs are now rated with the same methodology and that these structures are severely ratings disadvantaged because 43% of the portfolio is in issuer buckets of 5% or greater.
The orchestra has begun using a $50,000 grant from the federal Education Department (secured with the help of Ms. Lowey's office) for the Special Audiences Project, which uses orchestra musicians as teaching artists in after-school programs for severely troubled or disadvantaged children.
The area around the study site (population = 882) is severely socio-economically disadvantaged.
