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Examples for "meager"
Examples for "meager"
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He would offer his allegiance, his help, however meager it might be.
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But Gonzalez's payments dwarf the meager handouts given previous computer crime informants.
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The furnishings were meager; it wouldn't take long to search the place.
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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.
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One thing about Arthur: with respect to being stingy, he was consistent.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
6
The meagre result of the contest is as notorious as the victory.
7
The information in regard to Florry was very meagre and very indefinite.
8
There wasn't anything particularly special about it, apart from the meagre lighting.
9
He was immediately offered the job - albeit on a meagre salary.
10
The EU concessions to Cameron were meagre and he bungled the campaign.
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It also skipped locals who don't bother applying for the meagre support.
12
The magnitude of the chamber made its stinted furniture look meagre enough.
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It is meagre in places, and its entire trustworthiness has been questioned.
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That was, in the very nature of things, an exceedingly meagre support.
15
But the results, though they seemed spectacular at the time, were meagre.
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William surveyed the meagre furniture; the meagre, but still painfully superfluous, ornaments.
