Not getting adequate food.
1 Oh, how she could bow, that woman-theeloquence of her ill-fed form!
2 An ill - fed animal breaks down in the fulfilment of its task.
3 An ill - fed clerk and a dirty barman standing in the doorway laughed aloud.
4 An ill - fed brain learns no lessons, and is excusable if peevish.
5 The entire band appeared scruffy, ill - fed , and lacking in any discipline.
6 The smoke rises as if the furnaces were ill-fed and weak in the lungs.
7 As a child, Mikail was but a servant in the monastery, ill-treated and ill-fed .
8 None may say that the prisoners of Manator are ill-fed .
9 The fact is, he has been ill-used and ill-fed .
10 The people were ill-fed , half barbarous, and habitually indolent.
11 The slender, ill - fed child hurriedly filled the brass vessels, knowing that abuse awaited her late return.
12 The patriot force became the mere skeleton of an army, ragged, ill - fed , discouraged, and almost hopeless.
13 But Wellington's hardy veterans-ill-clad ,ill-sheltered , and ill-fed - yet kept their watch on the slopes of the Pyrenees.
14 The other sailor watched the speaker in cold contempt as he prepared a distinctly exiguous, ill - fed cigarette.
15 One cannot help respecting such prodigious trencher-men and women, or wonder that the poverty-stricken class were ill-fed .
16 One does not make an ill-fed child strong by stuffing five pounds of oatmeal down its throat!
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