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lacking in quantity or quality

meager = lacking in quantity or quality

meager = lacking in quantity or quality

In the stable buck's room a small electric globe threw a meager yellow light.
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

meager = lacking in quantity or quality

And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

meager = lacking in quantity or quality

Too many families are wrenched apart, as even children are forced to supplement meager incomes.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby's interment.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
Thomas ran his horse at the closest warrior, who pulled up and took a meager swipe at him.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
They finished the meager store of potatoes and carrots they had saved from the last agricultural area, and now they were always hungry.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver
Their number and quality made the meagre furniture that supported them seem absurdly disproportionate.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.)

The Gladers around him stood silent, clutching their meager weapons.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
And if they ever carry out this terrible threat, the meager handful of Jews still left in Holland will have to go.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
How few and meager they had been for her hungry heart!
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
His meager harvest was safely stored away.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
Just a simple hole in the wall, beyond which lay a small grotto and a meager, crumbling sarcophagus.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
With the other meager witnesses who had been tapped to stick up for Peter.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
The name of the sword cannot be spoken by your meager human tongue.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
I'm hunting around through my meager belongings when my mother comes into the room.
Ally Condie -- Matched
There was a scant shock of corn and many meager standing stalks.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
From those first meager clues, the bus and the dog, to the vast amount of knowledge we have uncovered about yourself.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
Whom thus the meager Shadow answered soon.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost

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