scanty

Definition

Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.

Etymology

From scant + -y.

Example Sentences

• "A girl dressed in scanty clothing"
• "To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain."
• "[…]and we cannot but regret that the imperfect morality of those days, which saw glory in the valour of freemen, rebellion only in that of slaves, should have left us but frigid and scanty accounts of so obstinate a siege."

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