ill-fed

Example Sentences

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What the poet scents here is unwashed, ill-fed city poverty.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2013

“We ought to be paying more attention to how many people we have who are ill-fed and ill-housed and ill-educated,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2013

And so we have returned, in a sort of terrible circle, to something like my boyhood years, when President Roosevelt spoke in anger of “one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-fed, ill-clothed.”

From Salon • May 21, 2012

When asked about his spending choices, an ill-fed Moroccan farmer told Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Poverty Action Laboratory, a think-tank: “Oh, but television is more important than food.”

From Economist • Feb. 16, 2012

Here there was not even a common language and among exhausted, ill-fed people, quarrels erupted constantly.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom