meager
adjective
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate.
meagerness
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a word derived from
meager.
Example Sentences
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Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2021
There is a fine line between elegant simplicity and mere meagerness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
There’s no choice but to walk the rest of the way through Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, which should be renamed Herbert Hooverville for its clusters of tents and aura of meagerness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2016
Neither parent apologized for the meagerness of the food.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
