SCANT


Meaning of SCANT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

scant regard (= very little regard )

Should we be exporting arms to countries with scant regard for human rights?

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

attention

It is clear, however, that Beveridge paid scant attention to these wider issues.

But they predicted that until the disease entered the mainstream population, it would receive scant attention .

It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members.

The Civil Rights Division also gave scant attention to police abuse of black citizens.

But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West.

Economic concerns received relatively scant attention .

Feminists have, until recently, paid scant attention to their older sisters but this is now being remedied.

They pay scant attention to the facts, rarely being bothered to research them or substantiate them.

evidence

However, there is so far only scant evidence to support this hypothesis.

Assumptions concerning this subject abound, but many of these assumptions are based on scant evidence .

In the judgment of the civil authorities, there is scant evidence against you and even less space for holding you.

Nothing else about metempsychosis follows, given the slight and scant evidence .

There is scant evidence of reconciliation in that room.

regard

Other criticisms of the Ridley ruling appear to show scant regard for the integrity of the retailer or its competitiveness.

Wall Street is notorious for having scant regard for the future and even less for the past.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Many people in the U.S. give scant attention to European affairs.

We had scant time to rehearse.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West.

He was finding scant peace in his own home these days.

Outside, bigger, rougher rocks were piled up to the eaves, with scant little chinks left for doorways and windows.

The plot of Raving Beauties is almost as scant as the girls' costumes.

They have no idea of amenity, no regard for landscape and have scant interest in problems of drainage and water.

While most mistakes should be ignored or given scant acknowledgement, there are times when parental intervention may be useful.

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