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Meanings of exiguous in English

Exiguous.

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Usage of exiguous in English
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Liosha joined us, accompanied by a porter, carrying their exiguous baggage.
Jaffery
2
The broken nose, the exiguous forehead, and the enlarged ears all clamoured for recognition.
Piccadilly Jim
3
Diving suddenly into the recesses of something, she produced an exiguous round silver box.
The Freelands
4
With exiguous resources and minimal cost, the cabanon shows how richly rewarding simplicity can be.
The Guardian
5
If it cannot be reduced to their exiguous standard, so much the worse for it.
Morality as a Religion / An exposition of some first principles
6
But the already exiguous gilt yields, less than 2 percent, can hardly fall much further.
Reuters
7
They raided the delicatessen at eleven o'clock, and made an exiguous meal on the plunder.
The Real Adventure
8
Lansulyan parish is a wide one in acreage, and the stipend exiguous even for a bachelor.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
9
Her exiguous legs twinkled all over the parlour, and she had the oddest appearance in the parlour.
The Old Wives' Tale
10
The other sailor watched the speaker in cold contempt as he prepared a distinctly exiguous, ill-fed cigarette.
Snake and Sword: A Novel
11
But it had been an exiguous living.
Scoop
12
She gathered up all the scruts and let them fall in a rattling shower on the exiguous pudding.
A Christmas Garland
13
Women in dreams of diaphanous and exiguous raiment stared derisively at the trio as they passed their tables.
The Mountebank
14
Together they had a noble breakfast, with waffles, and coffee not in exiguous cups but in large pots.
Babbitt
15
He hadn't quite realized how exiguous it was going to be when he spoke of it as supper.
Mary Wollaston
16
She arrived punctually at eight o'clock next Sunday, carrying an exiguous green linen bag, which contained her dresses.
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