adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scant regard (= very little regard )
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Should we be exporting arms to countries with scant regard for human rights?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attention
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It is clear, however, that Beveridge paid scant attention to these wider issues.
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But they predicted that until the disease entered the mainstream population, it would receive scant attention .
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It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members.
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The Civil Rights Division also gave scant attention to police abuse of black citizens.
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But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West.
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Economic concerns received relatively scant attention .
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Feminists have, until recently, paid scant attention to their older sisters but this is now being remedied.
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They pay scant attention to the facts, rarely being bothered to research them or substantiate them.
evidence
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However, there is so far only scant evidence to support this hypothesis.
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Assumptions concerning this subject abound, but many of these assumptions are based on scant evidence .
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In the judgment of the civil authorities, there is scant evidence against you and even less space for holding you.
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Nothing else about metempsychosis follows, given the slight and scant evidence .
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There is scant evidence of reconciliation in that room.
regard
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Other criticisms of the Ridley ruling appear to show scant regard for the integrity of the retailer or its competitiveness.
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Wall Street is notorious for having scant regard for the future and even less for the past.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many people in the U.S. give scant attention to European affairs.
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We had scant time to rehearse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West.
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He was finding scant peace in his own home these days.
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Outside, bigger, rougher rocks were piled up to the eaves, with scant little chinks left for doorways and windows.
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The plot of Raving Beauties is almost as scant as the girls' costumes.
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They have no idea of amenity, no regard for landscape and have scant interest in problems of drainage and water.
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While most mistakes should be ignored or given scant acknowledgement, there are times when parental intervention may be useful.