meagerness

Example Sentences

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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

But when Arturo didn’t say anything, I felt acutely the meagerness of it, the insufficiency.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez