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Meanings of scanty in inglês

Lacking in amplitude or quantity.

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

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Examples for "bare"
Examples for "bare"
1
J&J will continue, however, to sell its far less-lucrative bare metal stents.
Reuters
2
The power of nature takes their home and lays its contents bare.
Reuters
3
His right hand was entirely bare; they'd taken off his wedding ring.
Axiomatic
4
I believe this country's problems are best tackled with your bare hands.
The Guardian
5
It's rarely a good idea to reduce anything complex to bare statistics.
The Irish Times
1
A small number are also treated in public hospitals with spare capacity.
The Irish Times
2
It appears that this warning was given with just minutes to spare.
Transfer of power
3
Make sure to bring spare tires; two is better, three is best.
Rock and Ice Magazine
4
For the vast majority of artists, streaming services essentially generate spare change.
Wired
5
I hope you can still spare me a moment of your time.
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
Usage of scanty in inglês
1
Concerning the effect on neuropathic pain progress in knowledge has been scanty.
Pubmed
2
Crime was surprisingly scanty, and was dealt with through highly efficient policing.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
3
Agnew shrugged his shoulders and the scanty meal was finished in silence.
The Enchanted Canyon
4
The harvest was scanty, the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
5
The wings, mere scanty stumps, hardly reach the middle of the abdomen.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
6
The royal bounty appears to have been but scanty in its dispensations.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
7
The scanty population of the district turned out to the last man.
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
8
Egwene worked cheerfully, laughing and joking as they prepared their scanty meal.
To the blight: the eye of the world
9
Tip had baked from the scanty contents of the Pulsifer flour barrel.
The Soldier of the Valley
10
As to the engineer, his scanty tea-time was not left in peace.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
11
Probably the material before us is somewhat scanty for establishing these directions.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
12
This circumstance gives a heroic charm to his scanty and simple narrative.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
13
A company of soldiers shivering in their scanty gray uniforms passed them.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
14
The worship is thin, the thanksgivings are scanty, the supplications are indifferent.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
15
Beneath these scanty coverings the soldiers lay, and waited for the evening.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
16
Just a shirt, it might be said: simple scanty clothing, no warmth.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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Scanty through the time
Scanty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common