What is "scantily clad"

Usage examples of "scantily clad".

He was scantily clad in plain, close-fitting garments, his only arm a long straight sword.

In the early stages of their intercourse with white men, these savages were but scantily clad.

At the least they sleep scantily clad or in garments that may be swiftly drawn, aside, revealing them.

To be sure, she was thousands of pasangs from Ar, and if she ever returned to Ar presumably she would do so only as a scantily clad slave, her former wealth, identity, station and position irretrievably removed from her, no different from other such slaves in the city.

It is hard for a woman to help such things when she is scantily clad and in a collar, when she is a slave.

I then realized, with a strange feeling deep within me, something akin to fear and excitement, that on this world it was the naked women, or scantily clad women, women who would be slaves, or would be presumed to be slaves, women such as I, who must serve and please the men.

This is not to be recommended, of course, for a woman who is scantily clad and has a chain on her neck.

Despite Margaret Brundages cover depicting her most pathetic-looking Conan ever, chained in a cell while a scantily clad Zenobia hands him the keys, readers reacted favourably to the serial in The Eyrie, the magazines letters column: If The Hour of the Dragon ends as good as it began I shall vote Mr Howard your ace writer, promised a reader from Sioux City, Iowa.

Cal had modeled another woman, this one more well defined but more scantily clad than the first.

Young John the Baptist, scantily clad in the same old shaggy, chocolate-colored pelt, was still pressing against the Virgin's right knee.

The street was full of people from the neighboring houses, scantily clad in whatever garments they had snatched up, all of them with their faces upturned, all of them murmuring uneasily except when they were calling for other neighbors to wake up.

There, a soul stood chained to a statue of a river spirit The scantily clad stone nymph held a jug from which poured a steady stream of water.

A lovely woman, scantily clad, not even veiled, alone, on foot, did not seem a likely candidate to travel the Gorean wilderness with impunity.

The scantily clad stone nymph held a jug from which poured a steady stream of water.