meagerly
- a word derived from meager.
Example Sentences
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Even with that uncertainty, the meagerly funded opposition campaign conceded Tuesday morning that the measure was “almost certain” to pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
The vast majority are from big centers and power forwards from bygone eras, who made their livings in the post and pushed around anyone who meagerly tried to stop them.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2021
When a professorship of Latin at University College London opened up, the meagerly paid government clerk and Oxford flunkout applied for the job.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2017
The house did not appear to have been searched, and the only thing that was missing was her white straw handbag, containing a meagerly stocked wallet.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2016
The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk away and yet held onto the door, as if for physical support.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
