Less than the required amount

Usage examples of scant.

Turning on his heel he made a rapid dive for the batwing doors of the saloon, beating Wardle to them by a scant half second.

Some duke, out of gratitude for a forgotten favor, had paid for a clock tower to be built at the Citadel of Wizards, complete with a handsome horologe to which most mages paid scant attention.

Scant comfort to Caesar and Aurelia, who mourned her sadly changed circumstances.

The servant who could outwit or outgeneral her did not exist, and the servant who was not afraid of her lasted scant days.

Genley gathered himself up from his rock with the few fish he had speared and came hurrying in, splashing across the shallows and hastening alongside the scant cultivation Parm Tower afforded.

When Mac inquired whether he knew his daughter, or had any idea where she might be, Peabody introduced himself in such a way that the Scotsman felt he was supposed to know who he was, and then proceeded to pass on what scant information he had and to give his opinion in a pompously forceful manner.

Hawkril closed a numbing grip on a leather-clad shoulder, plucked the procurer bodily off his feet, and ran him back along the passage scant instants before a chunk of wall as large as a coach bounced out of the cloud of destruction and tumbled ponderously toward them, shedding blocks as large as their bodies as it came.

There was scant mention of treatment plans, prognoses, stress histories--anything that could be considered medically or psychologically relevant.

He was a short, pursy man, normally scant of breath, but for the last five years he had walked these tops on his daily occupations, and so friendly and kindly had they come to seem to him that he did not realise any arduousness in surmounting them.

The Quirt ranch was almost surrounded by Sawtooth land of one sort or another, though there was scant grazing in the early spring on the sagebrush wilderness to the south.

Much politicking, reallocation of scant resources, then, this pitifully inadequate mission.

This is the eastern quarter, the oldest human settlement on Tropicana, where the palm-thatched bungalows cluster scant metres above the white sands of Almond Beach.

There was at any rate nothing scant either in her admissions or her perversions, the mixture of her fear of what Maisie might undiscoverably think and of the support she at the same time gathered from a necessity of selfishness and a habit of brutality.

Sensing his reluctance, Sharana unfixed the clasp that held her scant robe in place and let it fall open.

In the few scant stretches of unshelved wall, niches held statues and a few ignored curios forlorn in polished glass cases.