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Meanings of very meager in English

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Usage of very meager in English
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We should consider it a very meager education indeed that ended there.
Equality
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At Quiotepec we have very meager accounts of such a ruin.
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
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Remember, Claudia, those alarming letters you sent me were very meager in their details.
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
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The earth's population, like our stack of paper, had very meager beginnings... but alarming potential.
Inferno
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General Grant is a copious worker and fighter, but a very meager writer or telegrapher.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
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I knew it was all it could be, but it seemed a very meager leave-taking.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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The breakfast the next morning was very meager.
Making His Way; Or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward
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The minstrels played to a very meager audience.
Watch Yourself Go By
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Pestalozzi at first met with very meager encouragement.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
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Her result on the ''Aussage'' (Test VI) was very meager.
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forens...
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The prevailing definition of study gives further proof of a very meager notion in regard to it.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
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The supper must necessarily be very meager.
The Mysterious Island
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The most exciting trial of our times has obtained a very meager commemoration in all but its literal features.
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
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The money paid for licenses is a very meager compensation for the beggary, crime, and bloodshed which rum produces.
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman / Embracing ...
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A very large pyramid is seen at "E." Our information in regard to it is very meager.
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
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John Millard had been for two years on the frontier, and there had been very meager and irregular news from him.
The Hallam Succession
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