as in meagerly
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Adverb
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Limón would like to see the state stop subsidizing corporations who pay so meagerly that their employees qualify for Medi-Cal.—
Anita Chabria,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026 -
When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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It’s been embarrassing watching both candidates smear each other as insufficiently MAGA.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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Paxton pitched Cornyn as an insufficiently conservative senator and the anti-Trump candidate.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 June 2026
Adverb
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Maps show the location of the crash is sparely populated and the two-lane road has no street lighting.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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More state complaints and a lawsuit have been filed in the last two weeks against a Boca Raton psychiatrist accused of asking female patients to dress scantily and show their breasts during video appointments.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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The job post comes from Joi, which hosts a large catalog of online chatbots, many of them scantily clad women.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
27 May 2026
Adverb
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Her fury at Helios employees being treated so shabbily is matched only by her disbelief at Ger and his crew’s recklessness in allowing the consoles monitoring and controlling all of Happy Valley’s life-support systems and communications with the Titan mission unstaffed.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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Otherwise, every one of the top draft picks Elias took from 2019-2022 – third baseman Gunnar Henderson, outfielder Colton Cowser, infielder Jackson Holliday, outfielder Heston Kjerstad and second baseman Jordan Westburg — has either underachieved or failed miserably.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2026
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One was to pressure Iran to fully open the strait and free 1,600 commercial ships stuck in the Persian Gulf, which failed miserably.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
11 May 2026
Adverb
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Fortunately, there is the compelling, if meanly portrayed, character of Michael Berman, John’s partner in the George enterprise.—
Lisa DePaulo,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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Kardashian was in court to share new details from a horrific assault in the name of seeking justice; to comment meanly on her outfit would have been a weird move.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
Adverb
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But given the larger stadiums and substantially higher ticket prices, that number appears to grossly understate actual ticket revenues.—
Richard Sheehan,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
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While some plaintiffs who took the bait may have been only grossly ignorant, certainly some were guilty of bad faith, anti-Blackness, and opportunistic collaboration with white supremacy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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“Stingily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stingily. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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