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underfed

adjective as in undernourished

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The animal was so underfed that his ribs were showing under his lusterless chestnut coat.

An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.

In North Germany, at Ilmenau, we were constantly pained by meeting peasants who looked underfed and miserable.

"Nature has no heart," said he, very bitterly and readily, as people do who are over-philosophised and underfed.

The pecuniary struggle produces an underfed class, of large proportions.

They had been underfed, under-clothed, singled out for all the disagreeable work and all the abuse—because they were English.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to underfed, such as: famished, hungry, ill-fed, malnourished, skinny, and starved.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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