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starveling

[ UK /stˈɑːvəlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who is starving (or being starved)

How To Use starveling In A Sentence

  • Truth, however gently expressed, cuts deep; cockroaches do not deter starvelings from the soup.
  • Compare some of these to what's said this political season: • "You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle!" • "You stock-fish, you bow case! Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults
  • The redhead Susanna, scarlet-lipped, rose-flushed, and wrinkle-necked, contrasts with the starveling look of the foremost elder.
  • So why would our own starveling country want two more of these vagrant landing-strips, whatever the asking price may turn out to be?
  • • "You starveling, you eel skin, you bull's pizzle! Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults
  • Their development is arrested, or they are, from the beginning, poor creatures born of starvelings, and perhaps fated to give birth to pale, sapless beings like themselves. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • Luz has discovered her appetite and is looking a little less peaky now, a little less like a starveling sparrow. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Acton had been a starveling when Lombard had found him during one of his rare excursions to the royal city beside the ocean.
  • And this after what the magazine calls "decades of whittling" in the state's financial support for UC, culminating in a "starveling" budget! City Journal
  • But announcing the intention to send the starvelings back to what is loosely called their home is not a task that everyone would relish.
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