单词	scantily
释义	scantyscant‧y /ˈskænti/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Beautiful women paraded by in scanty clothing. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A great number of equestrian statues must have existed but there are scanty remains of these. All this imposes a powerful constraint on language acquisition from the allegedly scanty data available to any child. He was too far away for me to copy anything from him; the light in Martha's room was scanty. Her eyes flew open as Roman kissed her again, his hands stroking the soft shoulders, revealed by her scanty nightdress. The bushes became smaller, more scanty. The problem which immediately strikes one is that much of the material is scanty, fragmented, and lacking unity. Their ambivalence about career choices is coupled with scanty knowledge about what such jobs actually entail or what their educational requirements are. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► scantily clad  scantily clad young women 1not enough:  There is only scanty evidence of his involvement.2scanty clothes are small and do not cover very much of your body – used to show disapproval SYN  skimpy—scantily adverb:  scantily clad young women
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