How to pronounce “meagerly” in English

was to teach at the Street Botnaverti Girls Higher Secondary School.But teachers were meagerly paid and resembled chewed up sticks of sugar cane, and I had no desire to become one. I confess, sometimes from our veranda, I spiedon other kinds of women, receptionists and typists who worked for Indian Oil or Guardbridge and waited across from our house for the company