meagreness
- a word derived from meagre.
Example Sentences
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I mean that the purpose of quizzing is to discover the answers, to work with meagreness, to build sufficiency out of insufficiency.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2020
Despite its economic and aesthetic meagreness, its citizens have high aspirations.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2019
At first, the life of the Bunyon legends was slightly endangered by a meagreness of French Canadian imagination.
From Time Magazine Archive
The day is coming when no student whose brilliance and purpose warrant it need mourn the meagreness of a U. S. education, no matter what his income.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meagreness of the company compelled several of the principal performers to play inferior parts, in addition to those against which their names appeared in the bill.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
