What is "meagrely"

Usage examples of "meagrely".

Murphy, although of various sizes, shapes, and ages, all had thick tallowy-looking skins, hard dull eyes and a way of speaking meagrely out of the corners of their loose thin mouths.

He certainly kept very meagrely the promise of his grandiloquent programme, and gave us a pound of precept to a grain of example.

It was a very ingenious piece of scientific contrivance, but it was meagrely adapted to tickle the ears of the groundlings.

Lawrence in a vast irregular semicircle, with cavernous hollows, one within another, sinking far into its sides, and naked from foot to crest, or meagrely wooded here and there with evergreen.

It was a meagrely plotted controversial novel wordily dealing with world politics--past, present, and pending--and she had been deeply interested last night by its discussions, especially by the profound deliverances of one Senator Chester Allaman, who had piled credible facts upon confirmed facts until he had run out of facts, after which he had dogmatized and moralized over the boundless muddle with all the assurance of the apostles of old who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.