What is "underslept"

Usage examples of "underslept".

Such is thelife of the med student that we saw Wendy only when she came up for air throughout the decade, underslept, vague, with cherry-stained eyeballs, rumple-clothed, and a preoccupied, crow-footed face.

Wendy was underslept after having been on call the whole of Christmas week.

Now underslept and breakfastless, sexually wealthy but also bereft he felt that the sky, too, was his colony, and that he was at the heart of its blue vibrations.

And earlier still that morning he had found himself gazing entranced at the underslept Aztec obstinacy of Imaculada .