half-starved

British  

adjective

1. having been deprived of food; malnourished

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Example Sentences

When she was not busy with her chores, coaxing eggs from chickens who would not lay them, or begging the old and half-starved cow for a bit more milk, she was staring up at the sky.

From Literature

During the pandemic, Sports Arena workers frequently found cast-off, half-starved horses roaming the San Gabriel riverbed and its trails.

From Los Angeles Times

"Would you want to live from the age of 40, half-starved, have a completely unpleasant life, if you're going to live another five years at the end? I wouldn't," he said.

From BBC

But by age 12, she found herself worrying that she wasn’t quite the physical ideal espoused by the school’s late founder, George Balanchine: a half-starved waif.

From Washington Post

"It was like being thrown into the past by a time machine. … I ended up in a half-starved Moscow with dirty, broken streets, empty counters, shops without shop windows. People were driving old cars."

From Salon