half-starved

British  

adjective

1. having been deprived of food; malnourished

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Example Sentences

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

Surprisingly, he was released after a few months — tens of thousands would be murdered there — arriving home half-starved and with all his teeth knocked out.

From New York Times

"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

They had searched for her in late March and found the family cat, Liza, who was half-starved.

From New York Times

Better yet, give us two Victorian rivals in East Africa, supposed colleagues who were consumed with hate for each other, weak from fever, half-starved and half-blind but nonetheless obsessed with solving a mystery that had mocked the world for 2,000 years.

From New York Times