Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
Scarce, little, or insufficient about food and other supplies.
Синонимы
Examples for "poor "
Examples for "poor "
1 Mrs. Bishop was in poor health; the general in poor financial circumstances.
2 Low cost, high impact interventions exist, however poor access remains a challenge.
3 Which the poor Century did; many thanks to it, in the circumstances.
4 Inevitably, it provokes envy in the poor and depravity in the rich.
5 Pity the poor earthling caught in the toils of the moral law.
1 But during the coalition government, services were reduced to the most needy .
2 Every year, he withdraws the pension and donates it to the needy .
3 She had studied intimately the needy and the rich and the middling.
4 Some is bagged up and offered to needy families to take home.
5 In reality they are psychologically needy and damaged examples of human life.
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.
6 Steve Swenson had warned me earlier that snowpack was meager this year.
7 The first withdrawal from his meager savings, but far from the last.
8 I stayed with the group, running a meager seven miles an hour.
9 But the sun is overwhelming, under the meager cover of the bushes.
10 Edmund took a few meager bites, paid their bill, and they left.
11 The missiles streaked out, charging towards their meager number of targets, and-
12 The women complain the work is hard, hours long and wages meager .
13 Ford went back to studying the meager blaze and trying to remember.
14 It also made some meager noises toward increasing oversight of wartime contractors.
15 Having eaten their meager supper Tarzan bade the girl enter the cavern.
16 Her mind turned at once to the pitifully meager supply of provisions.
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