Sentence example with the word 'scant'

scant

abstemious, chintzy, deprived of, hedge about, insufficiency, near, poor, scrappy, slender, straiten, watery

Definition adj. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

Last update: September 13, 2016


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He pays scant salary to him.   [adjective]

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I was mad at him paying scant attention.   [adjective]

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I was mad at him paying scant attention.   [Please select]

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Post-mortem discovered " short, fat, relatively scant numbers of acid-fast bacilli ".   [Please select]

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At Melford fair, good horses were scarce and eagerly sought after, cows started at low prices, fat bullocks in scant supply.   [Please select]

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The supply of water was scant, and they denied themselves drink that they might use it as a curative.   [Please select]

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On their side, the Greeks, though very numerous, were divided between the Corinthian and the Athenian, leaving but a scant showing of green and yellow.   [Please select]

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We are far from home, scant of revenues, and cannot support ourselves as your wealthy nobles, who have credit of the Lombards.   [Please select]

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The odd-looking stranger is ever treated with scant courtesy and unbecoming curiosity; the strange machine fares no better.   [Please select]

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Her hair is scant and lank.   [Please select]

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A scant patch of earth hides their dust, but their fancies, their imaginings, their philosophy spanned human conduct, emotions, beliefs, and aspirations from the cradle to the grave.   [Please select]

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