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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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This is exactly what one would expect from the linguistic evidence and the written record, scanty though the latter is.
Blake, Tintori, and Hagdorn and Blake and Hagdorn restudied the scanty Triassic record in light of that of the late Paleozoic.
He stands there, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing standing next to him.
Types of paratracheal parenchyma are scanty paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, confluent, and unilateral paratracheal.
Unlike myself, my sister had adapted to the fashion of the day, and her scanty blouse and short skirt left little to the imagination.
Estimates of children with ADHD range from one to 20 percent, partly due to scanty evidence provided by inadequate surveys.

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