1) Bare 2) Deficient 3) Exiguous 4) Hardscrabble 5) In a deficient manner 6) Insufficient 7) Marginal 8) Meager 9) Meagre 10) Measly 11) Miserable 12) Paltry 13) Scantily 14) Scanty 15) Scarce 16) Spare 1) Exiguous 2) Insufficient 3) Meager 4) Meagre 5) Meagrely 6) Measly 7) Scanty 8) Slimly 9) Sparingly 
• (adv.) Alt. of Meagrely
[adv] - to a meager degree or in a meager manner
sparingly adverb to a meager degree or in a meager manner; `these voices are meagerly represented at the conference`; `the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources`