meagerly

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After the wheel landed at 95 cents, Choi celebrated again, this time yelling and meagerly lifting his uninjured left arm as his wife leaped and threw both hands in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

The vast majority are from big centers and power forwards from bygone eras, who made their livings in the post and pushed around anyone who meagerly tried to stop them.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2021

While remote work may be entirely possible for the meagerly paid data-entry clerk, the high-living cosmetic surgeon whose Botox brow lifts have extended the acting careers of his Hollywood clients can’t work from home.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2020

When a professorship of Latin at University College London opened up, the meagerly paid government clerk and Oxford flunkout applied for the job.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2017

The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk away and yet held onto the door, as if for physical support.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick