scantly / skænt /

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scantly3 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

scant·er, scant·est.

  1. barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
  2. limited; meager; not large: a scant amount.
  3. barely amounting to as much as indicated: a scant two hours; a scant cupful.
  4. having an inadequate or limited supply: scant of breath.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to make scant; diminish.
  2. to stint the supply of; withhold.
  3. to treat slightly or inadequately.
adv. 副词 adverb
  1. Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.

scantly 近义词

scantly

等同于 hardly

更多scantly例句

  1. All three tech giants denied they harbor any political biases, and GOP lawmakers provided scant evidence for their claims.
  2. He’s running against charismatic former Army Ranger John James, a Republican businessman whose environmental platform is scant.
  3. That’s because scant rainfall and wide, well-marked streets ease the engineering of split-second computer vision systems considerably.
  4. While Misra was scant on the details of the SPAC itself, including how much the blank check company was seeking to raise, he did openly state his thinking on raising one.
  5. With only two other companies that have gone public through a direct listing, data is scant on how businesses fare following the process—so Asana and Palantir will be heavily watched.
  6. Mr. Mitchett was none the less scantly diverted from his estimate of the occasion Mrs. Brookenham had just named to him.
  7. He remembered the effect this adviser had produced on Julia—an effect that scantly ministered to the idea of another meeting.
  8. The children were barefoot, bare headed and scantly dressed, and it seemed awfully dirty about the doors of the shanties.
  9. He gnawed at the scantly-fleshed ribs of the first rabbit, savoring the raw meaty smell and flavor.
  10. The contents of it, as of all Fielding's work in this kind, include certain things for which the moderns are scantly grateful.