underfed

Example Sentences

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The author observes that “workers under the OT generally suffered the worst possible conditions because the agency specialized in construction,” which meant laboring outside in extreme weather, even while sick, underfed and exhausted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

Enlisted members of the Nationalist army were often underfed and scorned by their officers, and many ran away or defected to the CCP.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

"Currently most underfed children are using the stored reserves in the body, but a continued nutrition insufficiency would have long term impact."

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2022

If the play itself is sometimes over-rich, it is not underfed.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

At Pulefen Farm we were, as I said, underfed for the work we did, and our clothing, particularly our footgear, was completely inadequate for that winter climate.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin