meagre
adjective
deficient in amount, quality, or extent
meagrely
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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
Like many a self-made man, he paid his underlings meagrely, but his private philanthropies were supposed to be prodigious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Authoritative reports boiled down to this: there was probably food enough to feed the continent meagrely through the winter, if Germany would or could distribute it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later Mozart festivals were meagrely attended, poor things after the city's golden past.
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 Constance Fenimore Woolson
