Adjective : to do scant justice. ,a scant amount. ,a scant two hours; a scant cupful. ,scant of breath. From Dictionary.com.
And maybe the scantness of the apron could be seen as a comment on "food insecurity.". From Wordnik.com. [Tie (or button) one on - A Dress A Day] Reference
They hired no other servants after their arrival, which, however, struck nobody as an admission of scantness of means. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
Her satin dress was a mere sheath, so conspicuous by its severity and scantness that every one in the dining-room stared. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
Such a street, in the first place; then this little bit of a house; and then, there was more than that; he could see tokens unmistakeable of scantness of means. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
His heart feels a fresh bound; he feels neither strain of limb nor scantness of breath, and, searching as he runs, he descries before him in the plain the deceitful sire alone. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends] Reference
But her progress was slow, owing to the scantness of the wind, and for the next ten days they were able to accomplish only a few miles a day, the current running strong against them. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of El Dorado] Reference
Plymouth sound, but we feared to double it in the night, by reason of the scantness of the wind: so we stood out to seawards for half the night, and towards morning had the wind more large. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07] Reference
The scantness of the cover constrained them to press close one to other, and this touching was the means of somewhat emboldening their minds to discover the amorous desires that consumed them both; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
It made up perfectly, and more particularly as the stopgap as which I have already defined it, for the scantness of the period immediately round us; since how could I have wanted richer when the limits of reality, as I advanced upon them, seemed ever to recede and recede?. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
Men who had served in other prisons -- and their combined experiences covered a great many -- were unanimous and emphatic in declaring that the table at Atlanta was the worst they had ever known, not only as to scantness of supply, but as to the unwholesomeness or positively poisonous quality of the food furnished. From Wordnik.com. [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference
The embarrassment arising from the immediate scantness of officers led naturally, if perhaps somewhat irreflectively, to a great number of admissions to the Naval Academy, disregardful of past experience with the '41 Date, and of the future, when room at the top would be lacking to take in all these youngsters as captains and admirals. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
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