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Significados de scanty en inglés

Lacking in amplitude or quantity.

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Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

Uso de scanty en inglés
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Concerning the effect on neuropathic pain progress in knowledge has been scanty.
Pubmed
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Crime was surprisingly scanty, and was dealt with through highly efficient policing.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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Agnew shrugged his shoulders and the scanty meal was finished in silence.
The Enchanted Canyon
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The harvest was scanty, the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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The wings, mere scanty stumps, hardly reach the middle of the abdomen.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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The royal bounty appears to have been but scanty in its dispensations.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
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The scanty population of the district turned out to the last man.
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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Egwene worked cheerfully, laughing and joking as they prepared their scanty meal.
To the blight: the eye of the world
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Tip had baked from the scanty contents of the Pulsifer flour barrel.
The Soldier of the Valley
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As to the engineer, his scanty tea-time was not left in peace.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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Probably the material before us is somewhat scanty for establishing these directions.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
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This circumstance gives a heroic charm to his scanty and simple narrative.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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A company of soldiers shivering in their scanty gray uniforms passed them.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
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The worship is thin, the thanksgivings are scanty, the supplications are indifferent.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
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Beneath these scanty coverings the soldiers lay, and waited for the evening.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
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Just a shirt, it might be said: simple scanty clothing, no warmth.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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