All 6 Uses of
scanty
in
David Copperfield
- My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber; stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imagination represented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.†
Chpt 10-12
- I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources or the difficulties of my life.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Her dress was of a lavender colour, and perfectly neat; but scantily made, as if she desired to be as little encumbered as possible.†
Chpt 13-15
- The shambling figure, and the scanty great-coat, were not to be mistaken.†
Chpt 37-39
- I had not expected him to be, and was not surprised myself; or my observation of similar practical satires would have been but scanty.†
Chpt 61-62
- The scanty, wet-looking grey hair, by which I remembered him, was almost gone; and the thick veins in his bald head were none the more agreeable to look at.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn