Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
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.
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.
11 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.
13 It is meagre in places, and its entire trustworthiness has been questioned.
14 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 .
16 William surveyed the meagre furniture; the meagre , but still painfully superfluous, ornaments.
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