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

With that out of the way, Ewan finishes by torching Logan’s legacy, saying his brother fed “a certain kind of meagerness in men.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2021

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