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Underfurnish

Underfurnish \Un`der*fur"nish\, v. t. To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.
--Collier.

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underfurnish

vb. (context transitive English) To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.

Usage examples of "underfurnish".

Noelle's cabin is neat, austere, underfurnished: no paintings, no light-sculptures, nothing to please the visual sense, only a few small sleek bronze statuettes, a smooth oval slab of green stone, and some objects evidently chosen for their rich textures—a strip of nubby fabric stretched across a frame, a sea urchin's stony test, a collection of rough sandstone chunks.

The room was huge, as were almost all rooms on the Western Isles, but whereas every other area I'd seen was extremely underfurnished, to the point of looking naked, this place was crowded with tables that were piled high with arcane equipment.

It didn't take very long, considering the underfurnished nature of the apartment, but we came up with a whole bunch of junk.

Noelle's cabin is neat, austere, underfurnished: no paintings, no light-sculptures, nothing to please the visual sense, only a few small sleek bronze statuettes, a smooth oval slab of green stone, and some objects evidently chosen for their rich textures—.