The malnourished young woman hardly touched her dinner. instead, she looked at her food as though it annoyed her to eat, and it made us all feel very uncomfortable. which word best contributes to the negative tone of this sentence? A. malnourished B. hardly C. annoyed D. uncomfortable

A Malnourished

Explanation:

The correct answer is "malnourished."

This word that best contributes to the negative tone of the sentence as stated above is so because it shows us how the nature/state of the character.

We can isolate the tone on outlining the adjectival keywords in the sentence.

Then selecting carefully an adjective that describes the character and not how such feels.  

i believe it is true.        

its bassicly asking u   to answer it in your own words does that