What is "skimpy"

Usage examples of "skimpy".

She glanced down and realized with some dismay her shoes covered more of her than the skimpy bikini did.

Leggy girls in skimpy tops and satin shorts that covered a tenth of their gluteal regions skated by, transforming the walkways between the palms into fleshy freeways.

In any event he had nothing to stain, having left everything in the way of clothing back in the Jackaroo but for a skimpy pair of briefs.

I think you do, well, I doubt me that the men in my country would turn lustsome over that skimpy attire.

Somehow, for reasons not specified in the skimpy edition of the newspaper, Nayre had shifted from Castenago and joined the Durez faction.

They were undecked biremes sitting low in the water, two men to an oar, each owning a skimpy sail.

Within a Few moments Sile herself appeared, dressed in a skimpy Frock with too much bosom exposed.

And when, in her mind, she freed the skimpy Fruta del Telar briefs from the erection upon which they were snagged like a dishtowel caught on a railroad spike, she actually feared that she might swoon.

His coat, which was originally of a dark dull pepper-and-salt grey, had gone green at the seams and pockets, and moreover it was a ridiculously short skimpy coat for a gaunt big-boned man like this: it was hardly more than a jacket, his great wristy hands burst out of it like lengths of cordwood, and the mark of his high-humped narrow shoulders cut into it with a knife-like sharpness.

I enjoy the expectation with which the top is wrenched off the can of worms as if from some amazing birthday present, and then the sense of anticlimax in the watching faces: the forced tears and skimpy, gloating pity, the cued and dutiful applause.

It was a face worth concealing, skimpy and rattish and brooding and mean.

She changed quickly from her skimpy, sparkly costume into a dark pair of jeans and a top.

Deck watched her rummage around for something, spritelike in a skimpy tank bra, shorts underwear, and, somehow adorably, heavy socks.

Those seemed content to observe, like myself, bur they had all disrobed, though three or four of them Romanly kept on a single undergarment: a strophion about the breasts, a belt around the waist, a skimpy loincloth.

Under the coat she was wearing layers of old clammy cardigans, the stitches sagging, and the same skimpy dress as she had worn days before.