| ADJECTIVE | all | hand-to-mouth | providing only bare essentials |
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| Meaning | Providing only bare essentials. | |
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| Example | "a hand-to-mouth existence" | |
| Broader | meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy | Deficient in amount or quality or extent |
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