supply sparingly, with a meager allowance.
Only the tail meat is recovered from processing. The claw meat is tasty but very meager and difficult to pick out.
With the assistance of several meager advances from the bookseller who was to bring it out, he succeeded.
Their official salaries were meager and their official duties were very leisurely, so they made every effort to increase their extra income.
His meager assets were sold out one by one.
The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved in distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed.
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