meagre
adjective
deficient in amount, quality, or extent
meagreness
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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
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
At first, the life of the Bunyon legends was slightly endangered by a meagreness of French Canadian imagination.
From Time Magazine Archive
His hair was very thick, and apparently coarse; his arms long and powerful; and his legs, notwithstanding the meagreness of his body, furnished with very respectable calves.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
