underfed

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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

I flicked through the document, which includes suggestions that participants were "underfed and overtired".

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

Both movies ridicule aristocrats who are underfed yet over-sated: people for whom nothing is ever enough.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2023

The young, underfed Hirschman’s baggy pants and worn leather jacket demonstrate his rebel and refugee status.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

A thin and mournful-looking bird, somewhat like a small and underfed vulture in appearance, the Augurey is greenish black.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling