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Examples of scant
scant
Factory production rose a scant 0.1% in February after dropping 0.8% in January.
From the businessweek.com
As to what happens next, the NHL regular season has shown it offers scant proof.
From the stltoday.com
Roll a scant teaspoon of dough into a ball and drop into sugar, turning to coat.
From the post-gazette.com
It does not matter that he attracted scant interest as a free agent last summer.
From the washingtontimes.com
True, the Tigers'91st-ranked defense provided scant resistance to OU's advances.
From the dallasnews.com
Before today, we have had scant evidence that liquid water was present at depth.
From the sciencedaily.com
Evidence of voters being inconvenienced by the law's requirements also is scant.
From the newsobserver.com
There are a scant handful of female Brandons, but 700 or so of the male variety.
From the newsobserver.com
There are no national statistics and scant research on crimes against witnesses.
From the denverpost.com
- Light: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
- Skimp: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- Limit in quality or quantity
- Stint: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
- (scantness) meagerness: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
- A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level; A sheet of stone; A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size; very little, very few
- (scantly) Done in a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided
- (scants) A type of underwear worn by men
- When the wind is very bare; when the wind comes so that a vessel will barely lie her course.
