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Meagerly

adverb
1.
To a meager degree or in a meager manner.  Synonyms: meagrely, slenderly, sparingly.  "The area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"






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"Meagerly" Quotes from Famous Books



... suddenly filled with people. They came crowding through the walls from every side and pressed close to him. Such people he had never seen: wan, worn, stunted, pinched, starved, joyless. They were all children, meagerly clothed, badly nourished, ill developed. They were quite silent. They did not cry. They did not protest. They did not argue. They did not plead. They did not laugh. They just looked at him. They made no sound of any ...
— And Thus He Came • Cyrus Townsend Brady



Words linked to "Meagerly" :   meager, miserable, measly, insufficient, minimum, scanty, hardscrabble, minimal, bare, hand-to-mouth, paltry, slenderly, amply, deficient, spare, exiguous, adequacy, sufficiency, stingy, scarce, ample



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