All 5 Uses of
scanty
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He tossed it off the pan on to a plate and let the scanty brown gravy trickle over it.†
Chpt 4
- He put his boot on what he had spat, wiping his sole along it, and bent, showing a rawskinned crown, scantily haired.†
Chpt 10 *
- This was scant said but all cried with one acclaim nay, by our Virgin Mother, the wife should live and the babe to die.†
Chpt 14
- The scanty, daringly short skirt, riding up at the knee to show a peep of white pantalette, is a potent weapon and transparent stockings, emeraldgartered, with the long straight seam trailing up beyond the knee, appeal to the better instincts of the blasé man about town.†
Chpt 15
- Her hair is scant and lank.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn