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  • adjective comparative form of scanty: more scanty

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Examples

  • The scantier were the notes that were given him by those who had heard the debate, the more he had to draw on his imagination.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The pasture, however, was so thin that it was necessary to graze the cattle over wide stretches of ground, and the farther they went into the interior the scantier was the pasture and the larger therefore did the area of land become over which a farmer let his oxen or sheep run.

    Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

  • The scantier were the notes that were given him by those who had heard the debate, the more he had to draw on his imagination.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767

  • Schlussel prefers to see Tink in something scantier?

    Would you do me a favor, please? « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Schlussel prefers to see Tink in something scantier?

    18 « October « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Means are scantier still at Blackpool, who have already achieved the unthinkable by climbing out of the Championship.

    Manchester City's talent pool promises wealth of Premier League excitement 2010

  • NEW DELHI -- India's annual monsoon rains this year will be scantier than what was expected earlier, paring output of key crops and slowing economic expansion in the Asian nation struggling to boost growth amid the ongoing global slowdown.

    Monsoon Rains to Be Less Than Earlier Estimate Debiprasad Nayak 2009

  • Since grooms are usually somewhat older than brides, the sequence of larger and scantier birth cohorts caused alternating and significant shortages in the number of male and female marriage candidates.

    Sociodemography. 2009

  • The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.

    John Gabriel Borkman 2008

  • The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.

    John Gabriel Borkman 2008

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