I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.

The dear, little, scrimpy, patched darling.

Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?

A lack of computing power, scrimpy research budgets, and an overworked National Weather Service are the prime reasons for this forecast gap.

"Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old, scrimpy, frightful things as them?