underfed in English

adjective
1
insufficiently fed or nourished.
Some of the dogs are poorly fed or underfed , perhaps because after spending a lot of money to buy them, their owners do not want to spend any more to get them proper food.

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1. Some of them are sick, underfed.

2. Patty was looking a mess, gray-faced, poorly slept, underfed.

3. In the old days they were underfed and lacking in clothes.

4. Wheat is a luxury in underfed civilizations, but not in a prosperous society.

5. In spite of earth’s ability to produce plenty for all, millions are underfed.

6. Women are still the majority of the world's poor, unhealthy, underfed, and uneducated.

7. He looks as though he hasn't had a square meal for months, ie looks underfed.

8. At worst, it’s clumsy and underfed, a reminder that all of that ornamentation served a purpose".

9. Still another stole food and uniforms, leaving his soldiers underfed and ill equipped for the winter.

10. By eating such rich food, the once underfed dog gradually got bigger and stronger, and became very handsome looking.

11. He says the problems of serious malnourishment affect children before they are even born, if their mothers are underfed.

12. I ended with one of Albert Schweitzer's moving prayers: "For animals that are over worked, underfed, and cruelly treated;"

13. 27 There are bizarre arguments from arcane angles, plenty of finger-pointing and more posturing than a runway full of underfed supermodels.

14. Abnormal phenomena such as "scale economy does not bring about efficiency", "environment-friendly technology also does not bring about efficiency", and advanced productivity is underfed.

15. On the other hand, there is nothing that prevents an underfed thread in the "multiple-time-slices" approach from boosting its own priority dynamically.

16. The great majority—75 percent—of the chronically underfed live in rural areas of developing countries. They are landless , frequently unemployed or employed at very low wages.

17. But overall, compared with Chinese, Japanese food taste to light many, quantity is little also, accustomed to bowl of drinking large meat might well have underfed feeling.

18. millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man does not...When you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food.