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Synonyms for meagerly

Grammar : Adv
Spell : mee-ger
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmi gər

Définition of meagerly

Origin :
  • also meagrely, 1580s, from meager + -ly (2).
  • adv scantily
Example sentences :
  • In the evening he complimented Alfred meagerly on his proficiency as a whip.
  • Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
  • There were several forts in the Indian country, but they were meagerly garrisoned.
  • Extract from : « Four American Indians » by Edson L. Whitney
  • It was a tiny room, whitewashed; meagerly and nondescriptly furnished.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Air » by Inez Haynes Irwin
  • The Romans were perhaps the first who introduced that art into Britain, meagerly as they did introduce it.
  • Extract from : « On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, » by Samuel Felton
  • They found nothing but two meagerly furnished houses, apparently recently deserted.
  • Extract from : « Motor Matt's Air Ship » by Stanley R. Matthews
  • The volunteers had come in meagerly clothed because they expected to be fully supplied by the government they were to serve.
  • Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter
  • He lives as closely as he can, but, as meagerly as he lives, his pounds melt into shillings and his shillings into pence.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
  • The archives of Spain have as yet been only meagerly investigated.
  • Extract from : « Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction » by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
  • Even the hundreds of itinerating libraries but meagerly meet the want.
  • Extract from : « Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 » by Various
  • She found herself in a meagerly furnished, low-ceiled room, very similar to the one she had just quitted.
  • Extract from : « The Bride of the Tomb and Queenie's Terrible Secret » by Mrs. Alexander McVeigh Miller

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