All 3 Uses of
scanty
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.†
Chpt 25-26
- "You are married, then?" said the priest, with a show of interest, glancing round as he spoke at the scanty furnishings of the apartment.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- Horticulture seemed, however, to have been abandoned in the deserted kitchen-garden; and where cabbages, carrots, radishes, pease, and melons had once flourished, a scanty crop of lucerne alone bore evidence of its being deemed worthy of cultivation.†
Chpt 51-52
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn