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Ill-fed   /ɪl-fɛd/   Listen
Ill-fed

adjective
1.
Not getting adequate food.  Synonyms: underfed, undernourished.  "Badly undernourished"






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"Ill-fed" Quotes from Famous Books



... they have ever been in later times.' In this estimate we cannot agree. Rather we should say that during, and for long after, this reign, the people were in the most deplorable condition of poverty and misery of every kind. That they were ill-fed, that loyalty was at its lowest ebb, that discontent was rife throughout the land. 'In all points of material comfort,' we think they were worse off than they had ever been before, and infinitely worse off than ...
— The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt



Words linked to "Ill-fed" :   malnourished



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