meagrely BrE
meagerly AmE

It was her bedroom, meagrely furnished, but in perfect order.

And that way, dripping so meagrely, the load would last a long way.

Mr. Claudius led them inside the house, into a big living room that was rather meagrely furnished.

As a result, he had had to reduce the rations expected to stretch meagrely over seventeen weeks.

For five days he toiled on at "Overdue," going nowhere, seeing nobody, and eating meagrely.

And this was at the back of the head, only the central seam contaminated, and that only meagrely.

Everything about her life was strictly prescribed, and, because she lived in some meagrely furnished attic of the household, controllable.

The other rooms were meagrely furnished.

Prisoners were meagrely fed and could barely sustain these hard working conditions and freezing cold climate.

The situation at Chernobyl, where appropriations are being disbursed only meagrely, despite a glaring lack of safety, demonstrates how alarming this can be.

They got a taxi from the station and drove to The Poplars and dined together meagrely.

Her eyes, wide and wide-set, were bright blue but meagrely supplied with pale lashes, yet very firm and fixed in their regard.

Up at the crack, he meagrely breakfasts off yesterday's crusts and a cup of cold water, to spare the expense of heating it up.

A 1580s Elizabethan military record describes the Killarney area as a meagrely inhabited wilderness of forest and mountains.

Like J., she is black, and their guarded attraction to one another furnishes the novel's romantic interest and its main, rather meagrely fuelled engine of suspense.

Buddha sat, as Buddha always sits, with his lap empty: Confucius's beard hung meagrely down like a waterfall in the dry season.

Courage and devotion, so common in the ranks of the police, so little recognised, so meagrely rewarded, have at length found their commemoration in an historical act.

An old soldier who made his way to Zurich - blown up, a cripple, worthless except for certain facts stored away that former comrades paid meagrely to keep suppressed.

Meagrely so for his contemporary, Yeremi Valence, son of technicians domiciled on the lower hab level of Trazior.

An inventory of the castle's contents in 1595 demonstrates that the structure was a neglected, meagrely furnished place, and what little furniture there was old and in disrepair.

Light from outside fell meagrely into the room; illumination was chiefly provided by scores of candles which were stuck onto every available surface and adorned wrought-iron candelabra hanging from the ceiling.

He could hardly have been expected to foresee that two such meagrely favoured animals as Lucy Glitters and Whistler's Mother would have emerged triumphant from their respective trials of speed.

Then a fine morning dawned, and as soon as he had noticed the weather Amos, with a piece of bread meagrely spread with lard in his hand, set off for Cobbler's Corner.

In the cottage of her Utica father she had lived meagrely, with any new purchase, a new doormat, a fly net for the horse, a matter to be discussed by the family for days.

Their regular observance began to decline, their ranks were but meagrely recruited and most of their houses had to be closed till at length only four or five were left, in which about forty monks lived as best they could.

The other six were too meagerly furnished for my taste.

The school began meagerly with just a single building, in a privately owned house.

Without the benefit of proper volume, the set began meagerly.

Despite all the resources available to her, she still lives meagerly on disability and Medicaid.

They survived, meagerly, often without running water or electricity.

On the whole, the group is meagerly run.

They are expected to be exonerated and compensated, though meagerly, for their years in prison.

Even meagerly illuminated, the structure looked old and weathered.

In the 17th century, homes were meagerly furnished, by today's standards.

The book garnered good reviews but was meagerly distributed.

In some places, meagerly armed Home Guardsmen simply turned and ran.

Mr. Thomas is another example of a huge talent meagerly marketed by his team and baseball.

For a young woman to dream of a barber, foretells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.

THE lives of many great figures are meagerly recorded and make miserable subjects for biography.

They are furnished meagerly and rented out for $100 to $400 a night.

Andy has more money now, but he gives it away only meagerly, and merely for the purpose of small-scale image enhancement.

The Australian consulate was meagerly staffed for a calamity of this scale.

In contrast, priests in the countryside often lived meagerly.

The road is admittedly more rugged, but also more meagerly defended."

Since most of them turned out to be meagerly talented, incompetent, or outright frauds, the search went on, even today.

His collection is poor and outdated meagerly.

The properties have been resurveyed, the old buildings replaced, the owners compensated, albeit meagerly.

Alone, and more than meagerly intoxicated.

The ground was covered but meagerly, small, needle-sharp flakes out of an almost clear sky, brittle with stars and too cold for a heavy fall.

Still living meagerly, Graham Greene helped by sending her $80 and some wine every month for two years.