All 3 Uses of
scanty
in
Hard Times
- The only evidence of her last return now, were the scantier moveables in his room, and the grayer hair upon his head.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- And now, my friends — my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma — my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?†
Chpt 3.4
- Amazing creatures they were in Louisa's eyes, so white and pink of complexion, so scant of dress, and so demonstrative of leg; but it was very agreeable to see them crowding about Sissy, and very natural in Sissy to be unable to refrain from tears.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn