Crossword clues for scantiness
scantiness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scantiness \Scant"i*ness\, n. Quality or condition of being scanty.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being scanty. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being scanty.
WordNet
n. the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness, exiguity]
Usage examples of "scantiness".
The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and sterility of a country that refused to maintain the multitude of its inhabitants.
I can understand the sort of amazement of the Orientals at the scantiness of the retinue with which an Englishman passes the Desert, for I was somewhat struck myself when I saw one of my countrymen making his way across the wilderness in this simple style.
The fact that bullock waggons can travel in any direction, excepting near the coast, without more than occasionally half an hour's delay in cutting down bushes, gives, perhaps, a more definite notion of the scantiness of the vegetation.
Nevertheless, it was apparent enough to Pepper, and she seethed and sulked—especially when Florian finally took a good look at her act, saw the scantiness of her dress and commanded her to resume wearing the cache-sexe under her tights.
Given the nature of their silk, which is usually diaphanous, and the general scantiness of their garb, and the publicness of their picking up the coins, there is little danger that they could conceal a coin, even if they dared to do so.