The Only Use
scanty
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.†
p. 1.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)