shorthanded (?.)

• bare-handed
• beggarly
• empty-handed
• famished
• half-starved
• ill off
• ill-equipped
• ill-furnished
• ill-provided
• impoverished
• on short commons
• pauperized
• poor
• short
• starved
• starveling
• starving
• underfed
• underhanded
• undermanned
• undernourished
• understaffed
• unfed
• unprovided
• unreplenished
• unsupplied
• wanting