单词	starveling
释义	starveling /ˈstɑːvlɪŋ / archaic noun An undernourished or emaciated person or animal: a ragged starveling... But announcing the intention to send the starvelings back to what is loosely called their home is not a task that everyone would relish. Truth, however gently expressed, cuts deep; cockroaches do not deter starvelings from the soup. Acton had been a starveling when Lombard had found him during one of his rare excursions to the royal city beside the ocean. adjective Lacking enough food; emaciated: a starveling child... ‘And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired.’ 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?
随便看	dishonourableness dishonourably dishpan dishpan hands dishrag dish the dirt dish towel dishwasher dishwashing dishwater dishy disillusion disillusioned disillusionment disincarnate disincentive disincentivise disincentivize disinclination disinclined disincorporate disinfect disinfectant disinfection disinfest

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