He was an unhealthy, dissipated-looking young man, with lustreless eyes, a characterless chin, and an underfed moustache.
The underfed workman does not ask for a tonic, but for better economic conditions which shall prevent malnutrition.
It is much as if we offered to the miner the abdominal brace, or arsenic to the underfed workman.
Microbes multiply chiefly in damp and dirty places; underfed people are more prone to illness than others, and so are those who are overtired.
Therefore illness and early death must be the heritage of the poor who, underfed and overtired, live in damp and dirty places?
Only on condition that there be no more sources of infection, that is to say, that there be no longer unhealthful places in the world, and no underfed people constrained to work beyond their strength.
There is a vast, poor, seedy, underfed population.
The slums are nothing like so bad as those of London or Chicago--only the children are less boisterous, less vital, and seem to have been underfed all their lives.
Just an underfed man turning a handle, and an underfedwoman hitting an underfed piano.
In claiming free State maintenance, Socialists grossly exaggerate with regard to the number of underfed children.
The fact that Socialists grossly exaggerate in giving the proportion of underfed school children, and in ascribing the cause of underfeeding solely to the poverty of parents, is clear to all who have studied the problem of poverty.
In Fulham (London) "More than one hundred names were sent to the Boards of Guardians of children who were adjudged to beunderfed and were receiving meals from public charity.
Why is alcohol particularly bad for underfed and overworked people?
Underfed School Children, the Problem and the Remedy.
I found that it was torture for the woman to get near a crowd of underfed people.
I take it that you refer to the odor that comes from underfed bodies," I remarked.
I was familiar with it for the reason that I had my attention drawn to it first in South Africa among some underfed Indian coolies, and later I had detected it again in Mexico among starving peons.
One would naturally expect that in such a case the underfed would harbor hard feelings toward the overfed.
This class is at the same time notunderfed nor over-worked to such an extent as to leave no margin of energy for the work of adaptation.
The pecuniary struggle produces an underfed class, of large proportions.
Underfed Children in Continental and American Cities (presented to Parliament, April 1906).
Moreover, to endeavour to educate the persistently underfed children of our slums is to do them a twofold injury.
However, in considering this question we must carefully distinguish between three distinct causes operating to produce the condition of underfeeding, and as a consequence resulting in three distinct classes of underfed children.
Needlewomen and factory girls, when they turn their attention to domestic service, see the hardworked, underfed scrub lacking the one condition which goes far to alleviate the hardest lot, that of personal liberty.
Just as women are often underfed in Japan, girls may frequently be less well fed than boys.
The child who is improperly fed orunderfed is thereby handicapped, while the one who receives intelligent care along the same line is placed at a distinct advantage.
That in all large cities there are hundreds and thousands of underfed children is a fact of common knowledge.
Many persons are moved by sympathy to pronounce competition among low-paid and underfed workers to be bad, and each worker is convinced that it is so in his own trade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underfed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
