meagre English

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meagre

— adjective (= meager) deficient in amount or quality or extent meager resources meager fare

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meagre English » English

meager lean scanty poor thin little slender insufficient small deficient stingy skinny scarce scant mean few spare slight scrimpy miserly measly meagerly limited lacking jejune incomplete inadequate gaunt exiguous dry wanting very little unsatisfactory unilluminating unenlightening unblessed trifling starveling sparse slim sleazy slab sided skimpy skeletal shabby scrimp scrawny scraggly rinky-dink raw boned

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Who is this they follow, and with such meagre rites?

Professor Havemeyer of MIT, for example, points out it's possible, in light of our meagre knowledge.

For this.rank and a meagre pittance of extra pay.

He has only just left prison yet he has given generously of his meagre store.

Take my meagre rations and multiply them.

I'll ship your miserly, meagre coffin back.

We seek meagre accommodations.

Meagre tax records, I imagine.

You risked Earth's Realm to save two meagre lives.

Meagre defences.

A meagre gesture of support, while the others attend to Aeryn and Jothee.

Your meagre talent?

Famed for your meagre talent, now you defy the law.

But you, O meagre lead, which rather threatenest than dost promise aught, your paleness moves me more. than eloquence.

If you could stretch your meagre vocabulary to eke out a definition.

I've had to notify the local police, pull out the special branch, muzzle the press and allocate a large chunk of my meagre budget to renovating the establishment!

Those he has devoured are meagre.

That door is coming out of your meagre paycheck!

What meagre voice does dare mention my name?

This is a meagre feast to offer visitors from another world.

This painting is probably not even worth the meagre shillings she paid for it.

It was a cold, meagre and uncomfortable thing.

With my meagre pension I can't afford to send my son to college.

I admit that the human universe is infinitely richer than my meagre palette.

And rather meagre rations they are too, I'm sorry to say.

This painting is probably not even worth the meagre shillings she paid for it. Mi dispiace.

Her expensive lifestyle began when she was a student with a meagre scholarship, and the odd lesson.

Moths may seem a meagre meal for a bear, but their bodies are rich in fat and can make all the difference in a bear's annual struggle for survival.

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This will put pressure on the rural economy and place more strain on areas already grappling with meagre resources.

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