too little in size or amount for what is needed:
Details of his life are scanty. * scanty evidence * a scanty bikini
scantily adverb:
scantily dressed models
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scanty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scanty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scanty is tagged as adjective.
Does scanty appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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