Lacking in amplitude or quantity.
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
1 Concerning the effect on neuropathic pain progress in knowledge has been scanty .
2 Crime was surprisingly scanty , and was dealt with through highly efficient policing.
3 Agnew shrugged his shoulders and the scanty meal was finished in silence.
4 The harvest was scanty , the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
5 The wings, mere scanty stumps, hardly reach the middle of the abdomen.
6 The royal bounty appears to have been but scanty in its dispensations.
7 The scanty population of the district turned out to the last man.
8 Egwene worked cheerfully, laughing and joking as they prepared their scanty meal.
9 Tip had baked from the scanty contents of the Pulsifer flour barrel.
10 As to the engineer, his scanty tea-time was not left in peace.
11 Probably the material before us is somewhat scanty for establishing these directions.
12 This circumstance gives a heroic charm to his scanty and simple narrative.
13 A company of soldiers shivering in their scanty gray uniforms passed them.
14 The worship is thin, the thanksgivings are scanty , the supplications are indifferent.
15 Beneath these scanty coverings the soldiers lay, and waited for the evening.
16 Just a shirt, it might be said: simple scanty clothing, no warmth.
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