Definitions
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- adverb In a
skimpy manner.
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- adverb in a skimpy manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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You may pass this off as just teenagers wanting to rebel against their parents and dress skimpily, that it's an age thing, but it has a lot to do with marketing too.
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Parents are distressed because she recently released a music video for "Who Owns My Heart" in which she is dressed skimpily, made up heavily and, at a certain point, dancing enthusiastically -- but not vulgarly -- in a crowded nightclub.
Miley Cyrus's brazen video not as bad as moves on 'Dancing With the Stars' Robin Givhan 2010
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I also knew that the photos I saw of WW2, i.e. the big one, had posters of Betty Grable in a swim suit flaunting her you know what (oh my), and the B52's with the caricatures of skimpily clad ladies almost showing their breastisies, were so awful.
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I also knew that the photos I saw of WW2, i.e. the big one, had posters of Betty Grable in a swim suit flaunting her you know what (oh my), and the B52's with the caricatures of skimpily clad ladies almost showing their breastisies, were so awful.
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After all, we live in a culture where the walls of any Abercrombie and Fitch store are adorned with some dude's naked torso and skimpily dressed girls, where JCPenney, Macy's, and Aeropostale's websites all feature comprehensive selections of lacy G-strings and thongs on their juniors pages.
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Their presence provokes stares as skimpily clad beauties in colorful combinations rise from the little bits of carpet, blanket, headscarf or linoleum that they have placed on the grass.
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Although the skimpily clad male sales clerks drew initial media attention, the crowds have dissipated, partly because some of its clothes are sold at double its U.S. prices.
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Guests, whether vacationers or conventioneers from the U.S. or Latin America, tend to be understated couples, families and adults, rather than the skimpily-clad twentysomething revelers (e.g. Snooki and the Situation) from Ocean Drive or the glitzy social climbers from the Fontainebleau (which is bigger than the Titanic).
Dwight Brown: A Sunny South Florida Vacation Without the Thongs and Six-Packs Dwight Brown 2010
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Their presence provokes stares as skimpily clad beauties in colorful combinations rise from the little bits of carpet, blanket, headscarf or linoleum that they have placed on the grass.
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Guests, whether vacationers or conventioneers from the U.S. or Latin America, tend to be understated couples, families and adults, rather than the skimpily-clad twentysomething revelers (e.g. Snooki and the Situation) from Ocean Drive or the glitzy social climbers from the Fontainebleau (which is bigger than the Titanic).
Dwight Brown: A Sunny South Florida Vacation Without the Thongs and Six-Packs 2010
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