What is "scantily"

Usage examples of "scantily".

In front of the eating house known as the Final Opportunity, a well-built, scantily dressed woman posed against a painted board while the knives thrown by her equally underdressed partner flashed and thudded all around her.

Davyd blushed anew as she came out of the water: her underthings clung to her so that she seemed like some scantily clad water nymph.

On his right sat the Ontarian delegation, consisting of Bossman Pier, three associates, and a crowd of scantily dressed odalisquesall ensconced on piles of wide, deep pillows.

It showed Palmerin standing by the fountain and surrounded by the scantily clad fairies.

Tweedie saw an Irish girl of twenty-three, with an imperforate os uteri, who had menstruated only scantily since fourteen and not since her marriage.

Hat in hand, Garnache took a step forward in that bare, scantily furnished little room, permeated by the faint, waxlike odour that is peculiar to the abode of conventuals.

After a while he thought of a scantily clad woman with enormous breasts bazooms boobs titties.

He served free refreshments, thought of novelties of all kinds from rope walkers to fire belchers to scantily clad women who seemed to be able almost to turn themselves inside out.

The cover picture was of scantily clad couples holding tall glasses and reclining in deckchairs around a sun-drenched pool.

Along the whole west coast, which is inhabited by a peculiar marine fauna, tertiary beds are so scantily developed, that no record of several successive and peculiar marine faunas will probably be preserved to a distant age.

When it was time to part, these girls, who had formerly been scantily provided for, threw their arms round my neck, overwhelmed me with caresses, and declared how much they owed me.

Perhaps some of the younger readers of the magazines appreciated the sight of the scantily dressed females on the magazine covers, but that was about all.

The lead dancers are Cariocan women, scantily clad beauties gyrating beneath giant headdresses, their bare breasts flashing with sequins pasted on their nipples, their thighs glistening with aromatic oils rubbed on in the staging area by friends and lovers even while their lovely hips moved with the first fast, choppy beats of the sexual rhythm.

But the main attraction seemed to be scantily clad men and women swinging on trapezes suspended from the high ceiling.

Tawni Kondo, the scantily clad and splay-limbed immodesty of which threatens the devout medical attache with the possibility of impure thoughts.