What is "skimp"

Usage examples of "skimp".

They have to skimp on their equipment budgets, or even rely on old-fashioned hand labor to establish their initial infrastructure.

The woman skimped ridiculously, but all Chivians tried to get by with inferior ingredients smothered in peppery sauces.

It meant that this little family was placing its all upon the altar--even the pitiful coins for which they had skimped and saved for months for a particular purpose.

Andrews and I hastened off to get our own breakfast, and soon had a half-gallon of strong coffee, and a frying-pan full, of meat cooking over the fire--not one of the beggarly skimped little fires we had crouched over during our months of imprisonment, but a royal, generous fire, fed with logs instead of shavings and splinters, and giving out heat enough to warm a regiment.

Whatever power was lost by skimping was probably made up for by the number of victims.

Through her sick heart rushed the realization, that if she merely had stood before that wicket and asked one question, she would have known that all those bitter years of skimping for Elnora and herself had been unnecessary.

The humans generally find it very difficult to obtain scandium, and the analyses usually skimp badly on that.

There had been accusations of skimping due to rushed programming, particularly in the field of synaesthetic olfaction, making the simvacation even more of an attenuated experience.

Skimped on the food, took the bread out of the mouths of the poor nutcases and loony birds in there.

Although it has similar complexity, Caribe feels less real than the China-dominated world of her earlier novel, as if McHugh, worrying about her story line, skimped on the imaginative investment such an altered environment demands of the sf writer.

The Conforming Wee Free Kirk which sent out a hypership to found the Canmore Republic bought the latest in ships and skimped on the supplies, so that the engine trouble which prolonged the voyage left the ancestors of the Republicans a short step from cannibalism.

Not even if she had to save up and save up and skimp on disposables and serve her whole twenty years to use her money for a ticket out!

If subsequent obeisances were jerky or skimped, Ramoth had been mollified although she emitted curious little barks as each dragonet made its Impression.

And yet-when I heard the holy father in there, prating of judgment and eternal damnation before the throne of God, and I remembered how good and how pious a man Ambrosius was, and how he loved and feared God, and never skimped to do a kind or an honorable thing-sometimes I find this God of theirs too much to endure, and I almost wish I could listen without damnation to the wise Druids, who talk of no judgment but what a man brings on himself by the way he lives.

Syntheta have been known to skimp on the smaller facial nerve/muscle interfaces.