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How to pronounce meagerness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
Type of insufficiency, deficiency, inadequacy
Has types sparsity, thinness, abstemiousness, wateriness, spareness, sparseness
Derivation meager

Examples of meagerness

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Likely, this meagerness owes itself to the relative lack of source material on the subject.
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Probably, she saw her tea rose put out buds only once, and the meagerness of rosebuds may well be a metaphor for her life.
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This moment reflects an earlier episode, where Lex reveals his feelings of meagerness when comparing himself to Clark.
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  • The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
  • (meagerly) to a meager degree or in a meager manner; "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"