meagerness
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Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
With that out of the way, Ewan finishes by torching Logan’s legacy, saying his brother fed “a certain kind of meagerness in men.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2021
“From a Low and Quiet Sea,” a new novel by Donal Ryan, is so exquisitely rendered, with raw anguish sublimated into lyrical prose, that you sometimes overlook the meagerness of its slice-of-life offerings.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2018
But when Arturo didn’t say anything, I felt acutely the meagerness of it, the insufficiency.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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