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scanty
Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
📑 Synonyms:
skimpy
💬 Quotations
To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain.
Present on the table, one scanty pot of tea, one scanty loaf, two scanty pats of butter, two scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain.
His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.