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
The meagerness of Larry’s inner world becomes the novel’s own, and readers are offered a banquet of crass judgment and dubious wisdom.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
“From a Low and Quiet Sea,” a new novel by Donal Ryan, is so exquisitely rendered, with raw anguish sublimated into lyrical prose, that you sometimes overlook the meagerness of its slice-of-life offerings.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2018
But when Arturo didn’t say anything, I felt acutely the meagerness of it, the insufficiency.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
