adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beautiful women paraded by in scanty clothing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A great number of equestrian statues must have existed but there are scanty remains of these.
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All this imposes a powerful constraint on language acquisition from the allegedly scanty data available to any child.
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He was too far away for me to copy anything from him; the light in Martha's room was scanty .
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Her eyes flew open as Roman kissed her again, his hands stroking the soft shoulders, revealed by her scanty nightdress.
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The bushes became smaller, more scanty .
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The problem which immediately strikes one is that much of the material is scanty , fragmented, and lacking unity.
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Their ambivalence about career choices is coupled with scanty knowledge about what such jobs actually entail or what their educational requirements are.