Usage examples (37)

• The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed.
• It was a picture of a child clad in scanty rags, showing just enough skin to make me uncomfortable.
• I mean by that, that their minds have been well trained but their actual knowledge of things is scanty from a lack of conventional education.
• Tue 11/24/09 3: 54 PM to the contrary, I think the majority of movies have women and girls portrayed in scanty clothes and objectified roles.