meager

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I hope my meager contributions a few years back were at least a bit of repayment on a much larger bill.

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deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

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adjective

deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for meager.

adjective

deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

See also: meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy

Example sentences

I hope my meager contributions a few years back were at least a bit of repayment on a much larger bill.

And Facebook's dangers will always vastly outweigh its meager benefits.

Not customer relations, not support, a lone developer of a meager, newly assembled team who used his good sense.

I don't know any of these folks and don't have any dog in this fight but to belittle the creator of markdown by saying his contribution to the tech community as meager is silly.

Unhappy with the meager offerings of ViewSourceWith, you quickly graduated to Vimperator, and then again to Pentadactyl.

There are long queues for often meager returns, there are a large number of factories that produce mysterious junk, security policies are both incomprehensible and harsh, and to get anything done, you have to know somebody.

Fast forward to today - after witnessing first hand the lives of those less fortunate while traveling in SE Asia I realized how self-centered I was to sit out of the "Rat Race" and meander along the road of my meager existence while there were other people wishing they had the knowledge, opportunity, and capacity to live and succeed in our society.