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meagerly

/mee-ger/US // ˈmi gər //

微不足道,微不足道的,微薄的,微薄

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
    • : having little flesh; lean; thin: a body meager with hunger.
    • : maigre.

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Examples

  • That assessment, as thin as it was, was enough to give the markets a meager boost on Tuesday.

  • These include a pay rise for Nigeria’s more than 350,000 federal police officers so that they are less tempted to resort to extortion to supplement meager wages.

  • The fall in the multiple to normal levels works against the 10% gains in profits, leaving meager, low-single-digit returns.

  • Across the whole health-care system, meager increases in mortality rates have profound impacts.

  • Now money market holdings are once again declining because, well, it makes little sense to park your cash there if it’s earning meager returns.

  • The Romans were perhaps the first who introduced that art into Britain, meagerly as they did introduce it.

  • The tragedy of love is not (what it is thought to be) the unreciprocated love, but the meagerly returned love.

  • He gave an okay sign to Van Dellen who waved back meagerly and managed a smile.

  • Nearly every man had a little bedroom meagerly furnished with pictures 76from old illustrated papers adorning the walls.

  • “Upon my honor, you are not very complimentary to my taste,” he said, glancing around the meagerly furnished apartment.