"meagerly" in the adjective sense
1. meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
deficient in amount or quality or extent
"meager resources"
"meager fare"
"meagerly" in the adverb sense
1. meagerly, sparingly, slenderly, meagrely
to a meager degree or in a meager manner
"these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"
"the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"
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