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Meanings of meagerly in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "meagre"
Examples for "meagre"
1
If past industry experience is any guide, however, returns could be meagre.
2
The performance was in every sense unexciting; the audience meagre and unenthusiastic.
3
Moreover, fixed-interest investments worldwide provide meagre yields or some risk at present.
4
The meagre light revealed in the cuffs links of a peculiar device.
5
The lucky ones get a day of back-breaking work for meagre pay.
1
He would offer his allegiance, his help, however meager it might be.
2
But Gonzalez's payments dwarf the meager handouts given previous computer crime informants.
3
The furnishings were meager; it wouldn't take long to search the place.
4
Want to put your meager ducats and empty tabletops to good use?
5
Perhaps, he thought, Matthew belittled what he probably saw as meager achievements.
1
One thing about Arthur: with respect to being stingy, he was consistent.
2
The harvest was scanty, the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
3
The Rangers overwhelmed a notoriously stingy team and left their coach impressed.
4
One was too large, the other too small, and both were stingy.
5
The clique which had rated his reticence stingy was eager to believe.
1
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
2
The dear, little, scrimpy, patched darling.
3
Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?
4
A lack of computing power, scrimpy research budgets, and an overworked National Weather Service are the prime reasons for this forecast gap.
5
"Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old, scrimpy, frightful things as them?
Usage of meagerly in anglès
1
The only thing down here is a dank, meagerly stocked root cellar.
2
The Daguerrean plate and the Aeolian harp do but meagerly interpret his receptivity.
3
It was small, meagerly furnished, and offensive from want of cleanliness.
4
As I have said, the common table was meagerly kept.
5
They were all children, meagerly clothed, badly nourished, ill developed.
6
The room was small, and meagerly furnished, though every thing was clean and in order.
7
He found, in two small, meagerly furnished rooms, a man, his wife, and three children.
8
Hans and Joachim have been having a long discussion in German, which I understand but meagerly.
9
The adjoining bedroom was small and meagerly furnished.
10
Jennifer walked into a meagerly furnished living room.
11
And earn just enough to live upon meagerly?
12
This Darwinian theory integrating serotonin, status, and impulsive violence remains meagerly tested and is no doubt oversimplified.
13
But he was more meagerly supplied with the media of conversation than any person I ever met.
14
For a young woman to dream of a barber, foretells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.
15
In the somewhat meagerly-furnished bedroom there were not a great many hiding-places, and Carrie began her search systematically.
16
And Ramon, accustomed to the meagerly furnished adobes of old Mexico, thought that the ranch-house was beautiful indeed.
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