Word Finder - scant

definition

Very little, very few.

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After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.

definition

Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.

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a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment

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Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

Recent logic does scant justice to scientific analysis.

Continuous forest areas are scant.

The sands and clays found here are fine and soft, and as there is scant vegetation to protect the hillsides they are easily eroded by the rains.

Schooling was very scant before the creation of the public schools in 1854.

Summer attire may best be described as scant.

Though only four states of the Union are smaller, only three exceeded Massachusetts in 1905 in the value of manufactured products (six exceeding it in population); and this despite very scant native resources of raw materials and a very limited home market.

However, a scant week after that finale aired, the couple held a news conference to reveal that they were no longer together.

He was an unfaithful husband and often treated his wife with scant consideration; he was too fond of Dutch favourites like Keppel or worthless women like Lady Orkney.

Combine that with the scant amount of fabric that thong panties offer, and you have an undergarment that truly accentuates the shape of a woman.

Naturphilosophie has had scant mercy at the hands of modern science.

It has been suggested, but with very scant measure of probability, that the existence of elephants in Borneo, whose confinement to a single district is remarkable and unexplained, is due to importation; and the fact is on record that when Magellan's ships visited Brunei in 1522 tame elephants were in use at the court of the sultan of Brunei.

Nor had he less justice done him by a class from whom less justice might have been expected, the brother men of letters whose criticisms he treated with such scant courtesy.

The basis of the soils is sands (coarse, fine or silt); clay beds, though economically important, are in quantity relatively scant.

Figure 4. Synovial fluid CPPD crystals (compensated polarized light microscopy x400 ); scant numbers of rhomboid crystals showing weak positive birefringence.

At Melford fair, good horses were scarce and eagerly sought after, cows started at low prices, fat bullocks in scant supply.

For example, in one highly decentralized institution decisions are made with scant data and analysis.

At this point beneficence has run riot and autonomy is paid scant heed.

Have scant coverage means it is will continue to quot Ichabod quot.

She had also bought herbal cough lozenges over the counter - again these led to only scant improvement in the symptoms.

Spurs were blown away and Harte's 15 yard strike was scant reward for our play.

At the time knowledge of causes of heart diseases among young people was relatively scant.

My Dad will be 83 in a few days time, but his memories are quite clear if rather scant.

The available data is too scant to allow a full understanding of the problems these areas continue to face.

Our knowledge of events once the Saxon invaders took their place is very scant for at least three hundred years.

At this stage he made only scant use of the Bible.

I think that the 2nd disk is somewhat scant.

Sometimes a small, scant, little something can uplift the mood and the season.

Teddies are quite scant, so it goes without saying that you'll be showing a lot of skin and in light of this fact, you'll want to feel as comfortable as possible.

There are some tanneries, some preparation of preserves and other fruit products, and some old handicraft industries like the making of hats; but these have been of comparatively scant importance.

While hard data on corruption remain frustratingly scant, research is beginning to yield some interesting results.

My life is nearly over Before it has scant begun.

Again evidence for such action seems scant, but calculations of effluent load should include greater use of low water use systems.

In tribal societies in which climate and custom permit scant clothing, body scarification is common and considered as artistically and socially valuable.

Apparently the facilitation of precise placement is of scant interest to current producers of defensive sidearms.

Study of samian ware found in the town, however, suggests the local potters had scant success selling their wares.

Probably he was educated at the school attached to the monastery, and in his Testament he has drawn a lively picture of himself as a typical orchard-robbing boy, who had scant relish for matins, fought, and threw creed and paternoster at the cock.

Even if the increasing weakness of the Egyptian Empire did not invite a repetition of the incursion, it could have allowed the survivors to settle down, and about a century later one of the peoples formerly closely allied with the Purasati is found strongly entrenched at Dor, and together with the more northerly port of Byblos treats with scant respect the traditional suzerainty of Egypt.'

The cliff-dweller country supports a scant vegetation - a few cottonwood in the washes, a few cedars on the mesas.

There were only a few people about at that time, most of whom paid the marching column scant heed.

A feral being with scant regard for the feelings of others, he has hardened himself against any feelings of compassion.

Medical devices get scant attention in the safety debate.

A goal by Glen Little proved scant reward for Burnley 's dominant display against a disappointing Watford at Turf Moor.

In recent discussions there was scant mention of these tools.

His face was pale, he had sunken cheeks; his scant beard was untidy.

In common with some other great truths of the Christian faith, ' reconciliation ' has received but scant notice from theologians.

For many people, success provides little data and stimulates scant reflection.

Of that figure, 36.8 percent of paper products were recycled but only a scant 9.1 percent of plastic bags were recovered.

Recycling has increased significantly since the 1960s, when Americans recycled only a scantseven percent of their trash.

When time is of the essence, it may appear as if options are scant, however, you can still find the theme you want through different vendors.

Choices seem scant but there are surprising alternatives to consider when looking for this romantic dress.