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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



... function of these vessels is increased by moisture, and lessened by an active state of the lacteals. Observation shows that the ill-fed, and those persons that live in marshy districts, contract contagious diseases more readily than those individuals who are well fed, and breathe a dry ...
— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

... its producers—the working class, and not in its mighty armaments or individual wealth. There is not an atom of national strength in the accumulation of much money by any individual. Where wealth is in the hands of the few, misery stalks among the many; and, where the masses are ill-fed and hopeless, moral and ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor

... class in the community, is proof that such a class is well-clothed, well-housed, abundantly fed, and very comfortable, is as absurd as to argue that those who have few children, must of course, be ill-clothed, ill-housed, badly lodged, overworked, ill-fed, &c. &c. True, privations and inflictions may be carried to such an extent as to occasion a fearful diminishment of population. That was the case generally with the slave population in the West Indies, and, as has been ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... which Plato said would divide and destroy the true city of men are now established—the rich and the poor. I do not mean those with L3,000 a year, and those with L160 a year. It is not a question for the Exchequer. I mean that great numbers in all 'civilized' nations are ill-fed and ill-clothed from birth, and die prematurely. To perceive it is to desire action which perhaps no state can perform. But that we perceive it is something. Read the complacent rhymes of Lord Tennyson about 'freedom slowly broadening down' and then turn to contemporary literature, ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various

... I tell that? Because there are so many people in the world who believe that poverty is not sensitive, that the ill-fed, overworked boy of the slums is as callous as he seems dull. Because so many people believe that the weak and desperate boy can never be anything but a weak and vicious man. Because I came out of that morbid period of adolescence with a sympathy for children that helped to make possible ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various


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