Meagerness in a sentence as a noun

From the article I originally linked to:"In stories where the driver had been cited, the penalty’s meagerness defied belief, like the teenager in 2011 who drove into the 49-year-old cyclist John Przychodzen from behind on a road just outside Seattle, running over and killing him.

Meagerness definitions

noun

the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

See also: meagreness leanness poorness scantiness scantness exiguity