American English pronunciation
How to pronounce scant
IPA transcription: [s'kænt]
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[s'kænt]
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[s'kænt]
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[s'kænt]
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Verb
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work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
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limit in quality or quantity
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supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
“sting with the allowance”
Adjective
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less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
“a light pound”
“a scant cup of sugar”
“regularly gives short weight”
Usage examples
- Due to the scanty evidence it is unknown when it became extinct.
- However, there is scant historical evidence to support this tradition.
- He was interviewed while playing pool next to two scantily clad women.
- After receiving a scanty schooling, he was apprenticed to a hat maker.
- Its typical habitat is bare or scantily-vegetated, rocky plains, dry grassland and dry savannah.
- To this, however, I paid scant attention.
- Records of the language they used are scant.
- Evidence for this group being monophyletic is scanty.
- The province is mostly arid with scant vegetation except for the irrigated Indus Valley.
- The Old French "escantillon", mod.