Sentence example with the word 'scanty'

scanty

abstemious, cheeseparing, defective, in arrear, isthmian, miserly, part, scrappy, skimping, starvation, undeveloped

Definition adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity

Last update: July 28, 2016


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Rainfall was scanty this year.   [verb]

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Outside resorts, scanty beachwear should be confined to beach or poolside.   [adjective]

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The aspect of the surrounding country is bleak and barren, consisting of hills above hills clothed with scanty herbage or heather.   [adjective]

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"I left him at eleven o'clock this morning with but scanty hope of finding him alive after sundown."'   [adjective]

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He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.   [adjective]

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Your hair, alas, is quite short and scanty.   [adjective]

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But when he awoke, and glanced around him with eyes that resented scanty measure, even a sleepy glance sufficed to show much more than he wished to see.   [adjective]

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It is the colour of the ground and the background too, and the grayness of the scanty growth that hides it.   [adjective]

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"I think I have done it pretty well," he said, in reply to her smile of admiration; "with such scanty materials, I mean, of course."   [adjective]

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