meager

Now money market holdings are once again declining because, well, it makes little sense to park your cash there if it’s earning meager returns.

No association is so humdrum that it cannot be quickened into life, no matter how long it has been meagerly taking its course.

In too many instances, the sublimity of genius was meagerly illustrated by these aspirants for notoriety.

It was a tiny room, whitewashed; meagerly and nondescriptly furnished.

They were all children, meagerly clothed, badly nourished, ill developed.

In France, indeed, if one did not do a great many things before breakfast, the work of life would be but meagerly performed.