meagerness
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Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2021
The meagerness of Larry’s inner world becomes the novel’s own, and readers are offered a banquet of crass judgment and dubious wisdom.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
There’s no choice but to walk the rest of the way through Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, which should be renamed Herbert Hooverville for its clusters of tents and aura of meagerness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2016
His frustration at the meagerness of his thanks was like the small but constant whine of a gnat in his thoughts.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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