Synonyms:
light, scant(p), short
Meaning: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
Usage examples
I have scant patience
'A scant mile,' said Puck after a quick look.
If so, God help us, with the tremendous summit journey and scant food.
To ward heelers, to the daily press, and to professional stump speakers, he gave scant comfort.
"In the morning, when all is ready, take a one-gallon stone jar and into this put one scant cupful of new milk.
The night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear.
You would think it romantic to be walking with a person "fat and scant o' breath" if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
If the book is not interesting to the reader, then in all but an infinitesimal number of cases it gives scant benefit to the reader.
Naturally, any man who has been President, and filled other positions, accumulates such things, with scant regard to his own personal merits.
Such light as pierced the crowded boughs (Light scattered, scant and dim,) Passed through the fern that formed his couch And centred full on him.
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