ill-fed


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Synonyms for ill-fed

not getting adequate food

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The prisoners are also ill-fed in terms of quantity and quality and are in dire need of sufficient clothes.
Caster hires some of the sickly, ill-fed desert locals to work at the data center, and, under nanite therapy, they practically glow with good health.
But while we spent millions on ships like HMS Tiger, a report at year's end revealed that 500,000 of the county's six million children in state schools were "ill-fed and diseased".
"We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people - whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth - is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure."
A court heard the kids were "ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-taken care of" by their heartless 34-year-old mother.
Cut incapacity benefit rights in areas with 32 jobseekers for each vacancy, and families will be on the streets, children will be ill-fed and ill-clothed, and crime will be rife.
She is constantly alert to denunciation, ill-fed, brutally treated, and nearly raped several times, while she searches for a safe refuge for what remains of her family.
Now that so many people are no longer so ill-fed, ill-clothed and filled with hopelessness, they are looking to put new ideas in their heads as well as fresh bread on the table.
We've always had poverty, and the difference between a liberal administration in power and a conservative administration in power was that, when you had a conservative administration in power, the liberals would say one-third of the nation was ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-fed; when the liberals got into power it was only one-fourth of the nation that was ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-fed.
But Roosevelt wore a top hat and white gloves while campaigning on behalf of the "ill-clothed, ill-housed, and ill-fed." Edwards lost because the Democratic coalition he sought to capture has changed dramatically from the time of the New Deal and cannot be reconstituted.
In Chapter Eight, "Students in Freedpeople's Schools," Williams examines the actual conditions of schooling: the inadequate physical spaces, lack of supplies, large numbers of students (often ill-clothed and ill-fed), and wide age range.
The education they received was western in content and far from adequate to serve the needs of those newly 'liberated' in a country that was mostly rural, illiterate, poor, ill-fed, and ill-housed.
They were ill-paid, ill-fed and were treated appallingly by the shipowners - indeed, ratings were taken off the paybook the moment a torpedo struck and a ship lost.
11 one of the best reasons to flip the TV on in the morning is to make sure nothing terrible happened overnight--a hunger ill-fed by seeing KTTV's Jillian Barberie discuss how her therapy is going.