The quality of being meager.
The property of having little body fat.
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Examples for "scantiness "
Examples for "scantiness "
1 Lucy wondered at the scantiness of Mrs. Burgoyne's musical memory that night.
2 The general sterility of Media arises from the scantiness of the water supply.
3 But this scantiness of information need not cause us much regret.
4 With clothing, as with food, the usual tendency is towards an improper scantiness .
5 The action reminded me of the scantiness of attire in which I stood arrayed.
1 Then we cripple their efficiency through the meagreness of their pay.
2 That he looked miserable-thathe was thin to meagreness , I had not seen.
3 And somehow the simple melody helped to conceal the meagreness of the childish words.
4 Then he had apologised for the meagreness of the meal.
5 They were present to me now, but coolly and sanely in all their meagreness .
1 The poorness of his play was accentuated by the brilliance of Joe's.
2 I never could see no ' poorness of spirit,' come to git at 'em.
3 The poorness of the subject and the richness of the price shocked her profoundly.
4 I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces.
5 He apologised first for the poorness of the entertainment, saying that he had done his best.
1 The poor child flushed painfully while admitting the meagerness of her wardrobe.
2 The outstanding notes of his boyhood had been poverty and meagerness .
3 Oh, the poverty of mortal mind, the sad meagerness of the human soul!
4 It is almost shames me as to the meagerness of the gift I bring.
5 Peter had a glimpse of its poverty and its meagerness .
1 His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable.
2 He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe.
1 Her satin dress was a mere sheath, so conspicuous by its severity and scantness that every one in the dining-room stared.
1 Meanwhile, athletes are far more prone, especially in sports that emphasize leanness .
2 The ladies of the harem gazed upon my leanness with commiserating wonder.
3 Old Dr. Kendal, six feet of leanness doubled up in an arm-chair.
4 It had its desire, and as a consequence, ' leanness in its soul.'
5 The earth was the Lord's and the fulness thereof; also the leanness thereof.
6 And in the same way of extreme leanness and extreme fatness.
7 The leanness of the cattle will account for the number killed each day.
8 The advantage to this approach would be that it ensures leanness and agility.
9 This treatment cured him; his white-greenish complexion and his leanness disappeared.
10 The leanness of arms, the flat chest, the hollows were gone.
11 Remembrance, lifting her leanness , keened in the gates of my heart.
12 He was very skinny, with the dried up leanness of the bronzed Mediterranean.
13 Moreover, the very leanness of the famous official appealed to him.
14 I felt an allegory hiding its leanness somewhere beneath the glow and colour.
15 The flaring set of his ears somehow emphasized an overall leanness .
16 Little is known about genetic variants that predispose individuals toward leanness or fatness.
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