meagreness
meagerness AmE

But I am uneasy over the meagerness of her resources.

The meagerness of the audience did not seem to discourage her.

In a book it can seem like meagerness and insufficiency.

Both families are already terrified by the meagerness of their popularity at home.

It is hard for a Westerner to grasp the meagerness of life here.

However generous you have been, it is only the meagerness of each portion that will be apparent.

Grant Chadwick's reputation for meagerness was the best protection that he could have asked.

"But then I wanted to take the cuss off the meagerness of my party of one."

Kennedy apologized once more for the meagerness of their welcome and prepared to lock them in.

A recent study by Consumers Union underscores the meagerness of the benefit.

My meagerness is glandular; my nose I was born with.

The meagerness of her education depressed her, but that could be remedied.

American store buyers expressed disgust with the meagerness of the Milan collections.

The program touches on the importance of drug treatment, and its meagerness in the U.S.

Going home meant defeat - snubs and meagerness and middle-class making do.

He and his band have taken this opportunity to make a desperate bid for power, before democratic elections reveal the meagerness of their following.

She made all the proper noises, only chiding me mildly for the meagerness of my wardrobe.

Do not think meagerness, though.

Several times officers express gleeful astonishment at the meagerness of the Iraqi Army.

Judging from the meagerness of the clothes they wear and the houses they inhabit, most live in poverty.

Not of how hungry he was, but of the meagerness of the rations they carried.

For a professor of composition at a conservatory, this meagerness of output could be considered unusual.

But that hardly excuses the meagerness of this production or the air of lethargy surrounding it.

The burro was packed with a prospector's outfit startlingly real in its pathetic meagerness.

It reflected the poverty of her budget, the meagerness of her acquisitions, the struggle simply to keep the library open.