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What does scanty mean?

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Adjective
  1. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
  2. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
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Unlike myself, my sister had adapted to the fashion of the day, and her scanty blouse and short skirt left little to the imagination.
A thong is not a piece of scanty swimwear, as in America, but a fine example of Australian footwear.
He suffered from pain in the loins, scanty urine, hematuria, and generalized edema.
Types of paratracheal parenchyma are scanty paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, confluent, and unilateral paratracheal.
Blake, Tintori, and Hagdorn and Blake and Hagdorn restudied the scanty Triassic record in light of that of the late Paleozoic.
Suzie, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing, stands there.

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