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adjective

Scanty adj. (compar. scantier; superl. scantiest)

Lacking amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. "His dominions were very narrow and scanty." "Now scantier limits the proud arch confine."

Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.

Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious. "In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words."

Synonyms: Scant; narrow; small; poor; deficient; meager; scarce; chary; sparing; parsimonious; penurious; niggardly; grudging.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scanty" Quotes from Famous Books

... city in which he delighted to watch the humours of simple folk (the highest life being in his opinion 'much the dullest'), that Fielding found his wife. Doubtless his six years about town, as hackney author, with his good birth, his brilliant wit, and his scanty means, had made him well acquainted with every phase of society, "from the Minister at his Levee, to the Bailiff at his spunging-house; from the Duchess at her drum, to the Landlady behind her bar"; but it was in the rural seclusion of an old cathedral town that he wooed ...

— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden

... to be his own biographer, our materials become exceeding scanty. This is the less to be lamented when we reflect that the history of his "hidden life" is already told. The processes have now been related which formed and developed the inner man; and the few external events that ...

— Life of Bunyan • Rev. James Hamilton

... inclined to silence, and paid more attention to the landscape than she did to the conversation, which was mostly about range conditions, and the scanty water ...

— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower

... indeed, in much resembled that of the Spartan in Greece. He had forced a settlement with scanty numbers in the midst of a subjugated and sullen population, surrounded by jealous and formidable foes. Hence sobriety was a condition of his being, and the policy of the chief lent a willing ear to the lessons ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... particularly if that institution had its birth in struggling pioneer days. It is a period in university life which sees, as a rule, an undreamed of growth and development from small beginnings to unlimited influence, from scanty resources and great disappointments to a large if not always adequate endowment and equipment, from a merely local service to a national and even a world educational power. This is distinctly true of the century of McGill University's story. It began as a College, intended to minister to ...

— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan

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