All 4 Uses of
scanty
in
Dubliners
- His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.†
Chpt 1 *
- Mahony said it would be right skit to run away to sea on one of those big ships and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.†
Chpt 2
- But his figure fell into rotundity at the waist, his hair was scant and grey and his face, when the waves of expression had passed over it, had a ravaged look.†
Chpt 6
- His heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair made him look sleepy.†
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