meagre

a curriculum which is mean, meagre, and mechanical.

the walls were only adumbrated by the meagre light.

they were forced to supplement their meagre earnings.

regrettably, last night's audience was a meagre one.

in terms of science, Apollo yielded a meagre harvest.

in terms of science, the Apollo programme reaped a meagre harvest.

He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.

The injured climbers had only meagre supplies of water and peanuts to live off.