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Definition of meager:

  • (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

Sentence Examples:

It was pathetically meager.

Pitifully meager, isn't it?

If empty, you will experience meager reimbursements.

The chamber was meager even to meanness.

Her possessions had been so pitifully meager.

The minstrels played to a very meager audience.

Beatrice looked deftly through Madame Sin's meager wardrobe.

Ammunition for the fight was pitifully meager.

Then we each had a meager portion of oats.

Collie squatted in the meager shade of the "coop."

Crops were small, and food and clothes were meager.

This meager illumination cast the place into somber twilight.

Her bill of fare was meager and simple, withal.

Here we lived on our meager rations for several days.

He obtains but meager pecuniary reward for his preaching.

I unpack mechanically, my meager bag yielding more-meager clothes.

He smote his meager thigh in the abandonment of enthusiasm.

The parrot could make no dinner on this meager fare.

Charles's furnishings were as meager as everything else about his army.

Bent and meager, his linen clothes flapped on him.

Reports upon the habits of the species are somewhat meager.

A long, raking craft was taking on its meager provisions.

Of course, this work is pitifully meager as to many libraries.

There was the whole and meager foundation for his apotheosis.

The steward blushed as he proffered the meager bill of fare.

They expend their meager capital in trying to realize high hopes.

Here they had barricaded themselves with all the meager means available.

The present chronicle of the old clergyman's vacation is necessarily meager.

Are you willing to live on a meager pittance, as most priests do?

Information on the natural history of the hoary bat is meager.

Her mind turned at once to the pitifully meager supply of provisions.

Our home reports are meager, owing to the extreme lateness of spring.

These were very meager, as she was infirm, and dreaded exposure.

Yellow, meager, ragged, scowling, wolfish, but prostrate, too, in their humility.

He untied the parcel, and both men bent over its meager contents.

They were living on meager rations and the situation grew steadily worse.

In the first place, the supply of raw material is pitifully meager.

Presently, a knock on the door startled her, interrupting her meager preparations.

The reports, scores of which have been examined, are meager, fragmentary, isolated.

A final great contaminant against which weapons are meager is acid mine drainage.

It was a windfall and a much-needed addition to the mission's meager finances.

A meager crop soon in hand, outweighs a golden harvest long in maturing.

Though our equipment was meager, we had a cook stove and a piano.

Is it any wonder that his sentences are disconnected, his thought meager?

The aged evangelist could scarcely contain his contempt at this meager tally.

It was a meager egg, and a feeble baby that pipped its shell.

Progress and Poverty was one of the latest additions to our meager bookshelf.

Therefore, many summer homes are equipped with meager facilities for disposing of sewage.

I have become specialized to one woman, despite an erotic endowment certainly not meager.

The next day she came to me as I sat by our meager fireside.

Carrington felt sensibly enriched by the meager facts now in his possession.

When the meager breakfast was ready, he awakened Grenfell, who sat up grumbling.

It was part of my plan, this meager manning of the bandit ship.

The whole thing suggested poverty and the meager condition of a steerage passenger.

It goes without saying, however, that the amount of adipose thus deposited is meager.

The number was apportioned among different provinces, but the results were meager.

They recoiled as water strikes on a rock and divides into two meager swirls.

They are pitifully meager, though his opportunities for character building have been good.

What meager tithe do you bestow upon the religion of which you speak so much?

Given in and taken your allotment, however meager, and settled down to it!

His visage was meager, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.

"That man will hardly get a meager subsistence from one-fourth of that land."

Since the journeyman had left, the meals had become more meager than ever.

The ass in the mill at least receives in the evening his meager pittance.

The inflow seems very meager as yet, a mere trickle, but it has begun.

My whole gear, now reduced to most meager proportions, was scrutinized by all.

The meager furniture was low?slung and utilitarian, with lots of beige and dark brown.

Beyond these meager facts our knowledge of her must be gleaned from her books.

What the allowance will not cover, he pays for out of his meager rations.

Meager statements, even when accurate in themselves, may be as misleading as if they were false.

He stowed what was left of his meager supper into his blouse and strolled out.

Over the area of the plain and the rolling hills were meager wisps of clouds.

General Grant is a copious worker and fighter, but a very meager writer or telegrapher.

His cotton clothing was meager, he himself was meager, his horse was meager.

Do you think of your clothes, your kind of friends, your home life and your meager earnings?

This report, however, was very meager and lacking in any profusion of mechanical detail.

His glance strayed contentedly over the meager smoke-filled interior and those who peopled it.

He drew out a meager handful of nickels and pennies, his vacant smile grown wistful.

This has entailed a significant worsening of the initially very meager supply of livestock products.

Then he happened to notice the puny, meager child who was standing near her sister.

In his flight the sound of these following footsteps gave him his one meager relief.

His information, he said at length after an interval of marked hesitancy, had been too meager.

Our knowledge concerning the criminal is still too meager to justify one in drawing dependable conclusions.

You tell me some meager scrap of filmy news and then ask me a dozen questions.

Our striving, however, to know and to possess the Soul of the universe is pitifully meager.

I had finished my meager toilet, and was glad, for the espionage had been annoying.

His life seemed wasted in the patient, frugal industry, which only brought slow, meager gains.

He would get only what others shared with him out of their own meager allotment.

If he is put in a factory, he probably has to work long hours on meager rations.

After learning these meager details, the posse pushed on into the mountains in hot pursuit.

She saw that she was not going to be appeased beyond that deliberately meager degree.

She could only fence for time in the meager hope that some loophole would present itself.

The effect of all this far surpasses the impression to be made by a meager description.

There they bartered them for shoes, salt, calico, and whatever their meager existence demanded.

And to her own surprise, she did feel less bitter about her meager, home-made clothing.

She was a woman and her supple strength was meager compared to his great muscles.

In a previous chapter I have sought to show that official reports are often meager, sometimes misleading.

The footsteps came nearer and so did profanity, rich in volume but rather meager in imaginative symbolism.

The light from the outside was meager, darkened as it was by smoke and rain.

Her education, even at the best, is meager, and of housework she knows less than nothing.