The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
The quality of being meager.
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Examples for "leanness "
Examples for "leanness "
1 Meanwhile, athletes are far more prone, especially in sports that emphasize leanness .
2 The ladies of the harem gazed upon my leanness with commiserating wonder.
3 Old Dr. Kendal, six feet of leanness doubled up in an arm-chair.
4 It had its desire, and as a consequence, ' leanness in its soul.'
5 The earth was the Lord's and the fulness thereof; also the leanness thereof.
1 Lucy wondered at the scantiness of Mrs. Burgoyne's musical memory that night.
2 The general sterility of Media arises from the scantiness of the water supply.
3 But this scantiness of information need not cause us much regret.
4 With clothing, as with food, the usual tendency is towards an improper scantiness .
5 The action reminded me of the scantiness of attire in which I stood arrayed.
1 Then we cripple their efficiency through the meagreness of their pay.
2 That he looked miserable-thathe was thin to meagreness , I had not seen.
3 And somehow the simple melody helped to conceal the meagreness of the childish words.
4 Then he had apologised for the meagreness of the meal.
5 They were present to me now, but coolly and sanely in all their meagreness .
1 The poor child flushed painfully while admitting the meagerness of her wardrobe.
2 The outstanding notes of his boyhood had been poverty and meagerness .
3 Oh, the poverty of mortal mind, the sad meagerness of the human soul!
4 It is almost shames me as to the meagerness of the gift I bring.
5 Peter had a glimpse of its poverty and its meagerness .
1 His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable.
2 He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe.
1 Her satin dress was a mere sheath, so conspicuous by its severity and scantness that every one in the dining-room stared.
1 The poorness of his play was accentuated by the brilliance of Joe's.
2 I never could see no ' poorness of spirit,' come to git at 'em.
3 The poorness of the subject and the richness of the price shocked her profoundly.
4 I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces.
5 He apologised first for the poorness of the entertainment, saying that he had done his best.
6 But dullness and poorness are now their characteristics.
7 But still, for your father's sake, though I am ashamed of the poorness of the gift-
8 The ghetto of my childhood, for all its poorness , had the air of a street carnival.
9 This then was their pretended poorness of living!
10 Durable as a rule, they are in general characterized by a fatal chalkiness, and poorness of hue.
11 The poorness of their quality as tools with which to accomplish swift results developed the following day.
12 On the poorness of our palæontological collections.
13 He remembered the poorness of her raiment, the meekness of her language, the small range of her ideas.
14 Filth, poorness of living, and the want of linen, made this horrible disease formerly very common in Scotland.
15 This poorness of the vegetation is owing to the quantity of saline matter with which the soil is impregnated.
16 The scurfy skin disease so common among savages has a close connexion with the poorness and irregularity of their living.
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