Those people who are living on scrimpy Social Securtiy checks?. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Lotus 1-2-3 and the Politics of 1992] Reference
She was determined to do her part, she said: she should be mighty glad to help get that skinchy-scrimpy look out of Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow. From Wordnik.com. [Lydia of the Pines] Reference
The hosts then skittled out the Kiwi side for a scrimpy 108 with 2.1 overs to spare. From Wordnik.com. [Times Now] Reference
A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
Molly opened it, and there stood Miss Browning, in a wonderful erection of a nightcap, and scantily attired in a coloured calico jacket over her scrimpy and short white petticoat. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
I am just wondering how on earth I am going to afford these things when I finish serving my country if that’s what you folks call it, because my freelance jobs are far and few and also made worse by the fact that I am a thick headed ox who is reluctant to be employed by second-rate, scrimpy budget graphic design houses which are only interested in making mediocre bureaucratic ads whose only purpose is to nettle the general public and generate ribald talks among our well-mannered foreign friends. From Wordnik.com. [Blog De Ganz | Archive | July] Reference
The dear, little, scrimpy, patched darling. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
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