The word "meagerly" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is insufficient or lacking in quantity or quality.
Example: "The resources were meagerly distributed among the team, leaving many without adequate support."
Alternatives: "Scarcely" or "Sparsely."
It had no acting company, could not produce its own plays, and was meagerly financed.
Having sufficiently established his reputation as a writer to support himself and his mother, albeit meagerly, as a freelance journalist, Zola left his job at Hachette to pursue his literary interests.
There he supported himself meagerly as an apothecary's apprentice while studying nights for admission to the university.
Near the end of their conversation, Costas held up his old copy of an A. & M. classic, the 1965 Alpert album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights," which, as most American males Costas's age know all too well, featured on its cover a photograph of a young woman clad, rather meagerly, in what appeared to be whipped cream.
This Darwinian theory integrating serotonin, status, and impulsive violence remains meagerly tested and is no doubt oversimplified.
The play's clumsy exposition, inchoate characters — Lilith is exploited only meagerly as Maddie's lusty alter ego — and frequent shifts in tone suggest an early draft that has yet to be refined effectively.
Fish tagine was essentially mussels in a cinnamon-scented shrimp broth, meagerly accompanied by shrimp and cod.
Although Monday's open forum was meagerly attended, politically active members like Cecily McMillan and David Haack, who first proposed formulating demands in a pre-campout planning meeting in August, said they were ready to take action.
Mostly I remember the short cyclo ride back to my tattered hotel in central Phnom Penh, staring up at the apartments faintly illuminated by stolen electricity and weak bulbs, thinking of how the Khmer Rouge had emptied the city entirely and murdered so many of its inhabitants, and how the people living here now, however meagerly, had won an extraordinary victory over ideology and evil.
In-room amenities included a flat-screen TV with a ton of channels, on-demand movies and radio stations, as well as a minibar that was meagerly stocked for a hotel catering to a hard-partying crowd: two tiny bottles of Heineken (3.50 euros), a half bottle of Champagne (29 euros) and some Coke and juice.
She had also secured a federally subsidized housing voucher that allowed her family to live rent free in a three-bedroom apartment in Brownsville, which is meagerly furnished with items they had picked up on the street.
