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Significados de scrimpy em inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "meagre"
Examples for "meagre"
1
If past industry experience is any guide, however, returns could be meagre.
2
The performance was in every sense unexciting; the audience meagre and unenthusiastic.
3
Moreover, fixed-interest investments worldwide provide meagre yields or some risk at present.
4
The meagre light revealed in the cuffs links of a peculiar device.
5
The lucky ones get a day of back-breaking work for meagre pay.
1
He would offer his allegiance, his help, however meager it might be.
2
But Gonzalez's payments dwarf the meager handouts given previous computer crime informants.
3
The furnishings were meager; it wouldn't take long to search the place.
4
Want to put your meager ducats and empty tabletops to good use?
5
Perhaps, he thought, Matthew belittled what he probably saw as meager achievements.
1
One thing about Arthur: with respect to being stingy, he was consistent.
2
The harvest was scanty, the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
3
The Rangers overwhelmed a notoriously stingy team and left their coach impressed.
4
One was too large, the other too small, and both were stingy.
5
The clique which had rated his reticence stingy was eager to believe.
1
The only thing down here is a dank, meagerly stocked root cellar.
2
The Daguerrean plate and the Aeolian harp do but meagerly interpret his receptivity.
3
It was small, meagerly furnished, and offensive from want of cleanliness.
4
As I have said, the common table was meagerly kept.
5
They were all children, meagerly clothed, badly nourished, ill developed.
Uso de scrimpy em inglês
1
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
2
The dear, little, scrimpy, patched darling.
3
Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?
4
A lack of computing power, scrimpy research budgets, and an overworked National Weather Service are the prime reasons for this forecast gap.
5
"Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old, scrimpy, frightful things as them?