ill-cooked

“Good-morning, sair,” he said, bringing in, in addition to the customary herb-breakfast, an ill-cooked rabbit.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

He did not eat what was discolored, or what was of a bad flavor, nor anything which was ill-cooked, or was not in season.

The Analects Confucius 2004

Nay, there have been some who have thought good roots and Adam's ale too great luxuries for a Christian lawfully to indulge in; and they have purposely ill-cooked their vegetables, and mixed them with ashes, and even more disgusting things, to mortify the flesh, as they called it -- i.e. to offer a sacrifice of their natural feelings to the demon of which they have made a god.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 Various

Mrs. Gradinger's letter came as a relief; indeed the Marchesa had been wondering why she had ever consented to go and pretend to enjoy herself by eating an ill-cooked dinner in company with social reformers and educational prigs.

The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

Day after day he returned soaking from some distant station to the damp and discomfort of the house, and the ill-cooked, unappetising food, which he could hardly swallow.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

-- Unsuitable or ill-cooked food has a most serious effect on the mental powers; and when we take the case of a mental worker, we see that, in order to carry this power right on through a long life, proper diet is of great importance.

Papers on Health John Kirk

He mailed them at the wayside stops where, in those days before dining cars, the passengers debarked to fight with swarms of flies for the greasy, ill-cooked food served at long tables in public [dining] rooms close to the station.

Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

While he sat at his small table of rough-hewn boards with his scorched, unappetizing biscuits, ill-cooked potatoes and bacon, and a pot of tea that he could never brew to his liking (and Mr. Thompson, from a considerable amount of juggling afternoon teacups, had acquired a nice taste in that beverage) he saw Tommy Ashe and Sophie Carr pass along one edge of his clearing, a cluster of bright-winged ducks slung over

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

The life which had been so charming that he could not bear to leave it now seemed inept; he was seized with a distaste for the cafes, the restaurants with their ill-cooked food, the shabby way in which they all lived.

Of Human Bondage 1919

The ill-cooked hunks of meat, vilely served at irregular intervals, which had hitherto been the only diet for the sick men were replaced by punctual meals, well-prepared and appetising, while strengthening extra foods—soups and wines, and jellies (“preposterous luxuries, ” snarled Dr. Hall) —were distributed to those who needed them.

Florence Nightingale: Part II 1918