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Grammar : Adj
Spell : skan-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskæn ti



Definition of scanty

Origin :
  • 1650s, "meager, barely sufficient for use;" 1701, "too small, limited in scope," from scant + -y (2). Related: Scantiness (1560s). Scanties (n.) "underwear" (especially for women) attested from 1928.
  • adj inadequate
Example sentences :
  • Nothing had been added to her scanty wardrobe in that time but a black frock.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • By degrees, however, his eyes became accustomed to the scanty light.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • As Baucis had said, there was but a scanty supper for two hungry travellers.
  • Extract from : « The Miraculous Pitcher » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • These computations were correct as far as they went, but they were scanty.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • The other members of the Poorhouse had scanty faith in that red flannel.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • His scanty roll of bills was in his right hand, and there concealed.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • To these scanty means of improvement, she added another of her own contriving.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • On the surface of the roads where the ground is thin, the corn is scanty.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Grant me only the poor and scanty boon, that you would then conceive your right.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • Where they could, they robbed the Indians of their scanty stores of corn and beans.
  • Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

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