All 7 Uses of
scanty
in
Anna Karenina
- Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.†
Part 1
- Then she recalled the thin, terribly thin figure of Petrov, with his long neck, in his brown coat, his scant, curly hair, his questioning blue eyes that were so terrible to Kitty at first, and his painful attempts to seem hearty and lively in her presence.†
Part 2
- This man lifted his straw hat, showed his scanty curly hair and high forehead, painfully reddened by the pressure of the hat.†
Part 2 *
- His brother dressed with particular care—a thing he never used to do—combed his scanty, lank hair, and, smiling, went upstairs.†
Part 3
- The priest, a little old man with a scanty grizzled beard and weary, good-natured eyes, was standing at the altar-rails, turning over the pages of a missal.†
Part 5
- Levin could see the scanty locks wet with sweat on the temples and tense, transparent-looking forehead.†
Part 5
- Seryozha looked intently at the teacher, at his scanty beard, at his spectacles, which had slipped down below the ridge on his nose, and fell into so deep a reverie that he heard nothing of what the teacher was explaining to him.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn