meagerly
- a deficient in amount or quality or extent
- r to a meager degree or in a meager manner
these voices are meagerly represented at the conference
- Her case revealed a mental-health system too distracted and meagerly funded to decide what to do with her.
- Most people would think twice before abandoning a high-flying executive lifestyle in Paris in exchange for an insecure, meagerly paid job in one of Europe's poorest countries.
- The apartment is meagerly furnished, but it has two enormous closets stuffed with the props and trappings of a 19th century itinerant actor: hats, coats, canes, umbrellas .