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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

Later Mozart festivals were meagrely attended, poor things after the city's golden past.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U. S. was meagrely represented by three pianists who happened to be in Europe.

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 air in the room--a meagrely furnished, much littered room, was yellow and choking, and the candles burned dimly in the midst of yellow halos.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John