Inmates were "crowded, ill-fed, dirty and lacked medical attention.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

He may be kept awake for days prior to questioning, isolated and ill-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Art of Interrogation] Reference

Yet the ill-fed family is out of the race for a place among the efficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference

He was still weak from what he had undergone, filthy, ill-fed, and ragged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agent Of The Terran Empire]

They were ill-fed, sometimes they were not even paid, they were ill-clothed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician] Reference

Few children had enough to eat; the vast majority were ill-fed or went hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO ADDRESSES CUBAN CHILDREN] Reference

As a child, Mikail was but a servant in the monastery, ill-treated and ill-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

A third of a nation, Franklin Roosevelt would say, ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2002] Reference

In other words, millions of people die simply because they are hungry and ill-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [H.J. HEINZ COMPANY FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED LECTURE] Reference

It was won by the patience and courage of patriots, ill-fed, ill-clad and ill-paid.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington] Reference

They were ill-fed, unhealthy specimens, kept on short rations by Smaractus 'meanness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

Cattle grazed, dogs roamed the streets in packs -- and not an ill-fed animal in the lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

From all accounts the Germans taken prisoner are about as ill-fed as they are ill-informed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference

So how did this depressed, ill-fed, light-deprived creature look when he appeared in court?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would a Terrorist’s Lawyers Lie?] Reference

Tonight, one-fifth of the children in this country are ill-fed, ill-housed and ill-educated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Democratic Party's Liberal Wing Gets a Chance to Speak Out - August 15, 2000] Reference

They are rather small and thin; and many of those living in the cities are ill-fed and diseased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference

There was nothing about this diligent, ill-fed, little worker that appealed to his sense of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference

What a contrast between those happy, sleek, laughing faces and the sullen, careworn, ill-fed ones of now!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plantation Sketches] Reference

Although the fees were high, the school was badly conducted, and the boys were both ill-taught and ill-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

As my mother might say, in Yiddish: On Monday one third of the nation was ill-housed, ill-clothed, and ill-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closing Time] Reference

The class of 1932 would look out a nation in mired in depression; a nation ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northwestern University Commencement Address] Reference

Edson was told initially there was an ill-fed and poorly armed enemy force of no more than 300 in the target area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Do-or-Die Men] Reference

So ill-fed were they that they were compelled to rob on the highway, and were encouraged to do so by their owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

In 1969, President Nixon said, "A child ill-fed is dulled in curiosity, lower in stamina, distracted from learning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks Of President On School Lunch Program Cut] Reference

We have lessened that group in our country that are ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed, but we still have a job to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman] Reference

He scolded the waiter, saying, ‘It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference

The fury of the ill-fed, reckless, discontented crew, on discovering the project of their superiors, passed all bounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

That maid, ill-fed, tired, fed-up, wouldn't have dreamt of using the elevator at the time when she had been asked not to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report on Britain] Reference

Mayor Domingos Mavunda stands amid 40-odd women, emaciated old men and a smattering of ill-fed children who are the remnants of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The visage he displayed was scrawny and his greeting cautious, like that of an ill-fed mouse who suspected that the cat had come to call.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistaken Wife] Reference

Chicken, indeed, for a little dog, before these ill-fed bairns!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greyfriars Bobby] Reference

The worst upsurge is occurring in low-income, ill-fed, developing countries, not in prosperous Western democracies.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Policy Institute] Reference

But he was unable to discharge his duties that day; his ill-fed, miserable frame was too weak for the stroke he had received.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia — Complete] Reference

Thus, ill-fed, hard-worked, and often beaten, the noble horse Beiffror passed the time while his master's imprisonment lasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference