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Meanings of scantiest in English

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Usage of scantiest in English
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He received only the scantiest education in the schools near his home.
History of American Literature
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The Manóbo house fittings are of the scantiest and most necessary kind.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
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Poor Palestrina went along many years through life with the scantiest means.
Music Talks with Children
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When it did it was in the scantiest of pigeon English.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
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His food was of the plainest, and sometimes of the scantiest.
The Story of General Gordon
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Their blackened limbs emerging from the scantiest of vesture, the actors surpassed themselves.
South Wind
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Where practicable it is well to dispense with bathing suits, even the scantiest.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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No doubt his information was of the scantiest, and-weare not chickens, Morgan.
The Slave of the Lamp
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When I left the normal school, my stock of mathematics was of the scantiest.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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The scantiest humanity demanded that assistance be sent at once.
The Spoilers
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Well, then, of this frank confidence in others the tyrant has the scantiest share.
Hiero
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Blaydes plied his companion with eager questions, to which Lathrop returned the scantiest answers.
Delia Blanchflower
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Judy lay on her side, clad only in the scantiest of bra and pantie.
The devil's heart
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Under this scantiest of premises is a complex game that may take years to conquer.
Wired
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The furnishings of the cave-like refuge were the scantiest.
Laramie Holds the Range
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To live in wilds, where oft the scantiest shapes
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and All...
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