All 5 Uses of
scanty
in
The Turn of the Screw
- The scene had a greatness that made it a different affair from my own scant home,
Chpt All *scant = small
- We expect of a small child a scant one, but there was in this beautiful little boy something extraordinarily sensitive, yet extraordinarily happy, that, more than in any creature of his age I have seen, struck me as beginning anew each day.†
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- The pond, oblong in shape, had a width so scant compared to its length that, with its ends out of view, it might have been taken for a scant river.†
Chpt All
- The pond, oblong in shape, had a width so scant compared to its length that, with its ends out of view, it might have been taken for a scant river.†
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- The note, at any rate, that I put on the table yesterday," I pursued, "will have given him so scant an advantage—for it contained only the bare demand for an interview—that he is already much ashamed of having gone so far for so little, and that what he had on his mind last evening was precisely the need of confession."†
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Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn