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• n  the quality of being meager

• When pressed by sometimes testy Congressmen about the meagerness of Soviet disclosures, Churkin replied blandly, ''We have been very forthcoming.
• The meagerness of thank offerings collected on the first night was disheartening.
• He was too impressed with the hardships of soldiering and the meagerness of existence out on the fringes of the war; too depressed by the seeming indifference of civilians who .

• meagreness
• leanness
• poorness
• scantiness
• scantness
• exiguity