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skimpily

adv. In a skimpy manner.

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skimpily

adv. in a skimpy manner; "a skimpily dressed woman"

Usage examples of "skimpily".

I am not in the habit of parading around skimpily dressed in front of strangers.

She was remembering the morning in the attic when she had leaned out another window, clad even more skimpily than she was tonight.

Jonna has been neglected since it was first found and skimpily surveyed.

At another silent command from Valerian, a trio of the skimpily clad women moved to sit cross-legged under the suspended coach.

At breakfast in the saloon she ate skimpily, said nothing, and when she was done returned to her room and screened book after book.

She had been forced to perform attitudes, as made famous by Emma Hamilton, and sometimes lewd ones, skimpily dressed.

He looked past me, as though he expected to see a white tiger, or possibly some skimpily clad assistants prancing around my one-room office.

Mum had heard that girls purposely dressed skimpily to catch the eye of drivers as they raced to the sinful south and she was adamant that my clothes should be modest.

Of course, I could not expect to share the well-appointed family rooms, and the upstairs chamber to which she showed me was pinched and skimpily furnished with the cheapest of wares, but it was adequate for my requirements.

His lankiness was also skimpily clad in European style, save for cavalry boots and saber.

His hands tightened on her waist, his eyes roving over her skimpily clad body.

Not from modesty but from embarrassment that he should see how skimpily she was endowed.

The women, by contrast, were very skimpily dressed, with flounced, bell-shaped skirts barely reaching their ankles, which were white-stockinged and set off by high pattens or dainty slippers.

Their breath was plain in the air, and the women was skimpily dressed.