meagrely
- a word derived from meagre.
Example Sentences
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Competitive, prestigious industries often pay entry- to mid-level employees meagrely, because they can; ambitious people are so keen for a spot on the ladder that they accept modest wages.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
The U. S. was meagrely represented by three pianists who happened to be in Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here he was treated as an ordinary mortal, which meant meagrely.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like many a self-made man, he paid his underlings meagrely, but his private philanthropies were supposed to be prodigious.
From Time Magazine Archive
The one exception to the rule of billowy beauty was a slender, even meagrely formed girl, who in America would pass perhaps for seventeen; probably she was three years younger.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
