meagerly
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[mee-ger]
–adjective
| 1. | deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest. |
| 2. | having little flesh; lean; thin: a body meager with hunger. |
| 3. | maigre. |
Also, especially British, meagre.
Origin:
1300–50; ME megre < OF maigre < L macer lean
1300–50; ME megre < OF maigre < L macer lean

Related forms:
mea⋅ger⋅ly, adverb
mea⋅ger⋅ness, noun
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Meagerly
Mea"ger*ly\, Meagrely \Mea"gre*ly\, adv. Poorly; thinly.
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