underfed

Example Sentences

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She and other relatives say the men weren’t plotting a coup but raising concerns about issues such as underfed soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Enlisted members of the Nationalist army were often underfed and scorned by their officers, and many ran away or defected to the CCP.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

"Currently most underfed children are using the stored reserves in the body, but a continued nutrition insufficiency would have long term impact."

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2022

If the play itself is sometimes over-rich, it is not underfed.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.

From "1984" by George Orwell