Synonym: light, scant, short, skimp, stint. Similar words: scan, scare, scared, scandal, scale, scary, fiscal, scatter. Meaning: [skænt] v. 1. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially 2. limit in quality or quantity 3. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities. adj. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
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31. The 10,300 parish priests whose job it is to man these churches are thus a rather scant resource.
32. She nudged him as the sleek dark head of a seal bobbed up scant yards from where they were.
33. Other criticisms of the Ridley ruling appear to show scant regard for the integrity of the retailer or its competitiveness.
34. They have very little time to talk; our education services allow scant space for the education of its own workers.
35. Wall Street is notorious for having scant regard for the future and even less for the past.
36. Influence of mesenchyme Data concerning cellular or molecular stimuli that influence postnatal stem cell function invitro, are scant.
37. Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
37. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
38. The Civil Rights Division also gave scant attention to police abuse of black citizens.
39. However, there is so far only scant evidence to support this hypothesis.
40. Theological references to them are scant, though St Bernard took the blackness as a symbol of humility.
41. In the judgment of the civil authorities, there is scant evidence against you and even less space for holding you.
42. Feminists have, until recently, paid scant attention to their older sisters but this is now being remedied.
43. They have no idea of amenity, no regard for landscape and have scant interest in problems of drainage and water.
44. But they predicted that until the disease entered the mainstream population, it would receive scant attention.
45. Amazingly, Charman's departure and replacement by Simon Smith, received scant attention in the music press.
46. Three or four shooters would vanish completely, leaving scant traces of their affiliation.
47. But there is scant solace to be found in this descent towards lowest common denominators for those who would see genuine reform.
48. Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation, such as unemployment levels and proportions of children or families in receipt of Supplementary Benefit.
49. He showed the same scant respect for other agents of central power.
50. That evening the bivouac fires of the two armies were a scant mile apart.
51. He was finding scant peace in his own home these days.
52. But union propaganda about unsafe workplaces bears scant relation to the real world.
53. Such a way of proceeding has much to recommend it, but scant progress has been made in that direction.
54. Although Moorhens are sometimes seen in unusual localities along the coast, definite evidence of migration in Sussex is very scant.
55. But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West.
56. As in many areas, an increasingly ageing population was becoming an added drain on scant resources.
57. Fastmaturing varieties that might take a scant seven weeks until harvest begins should be sown in early August.
58. Darren Black's goal four minutes into time was scant consolation for the east Belfast side.
59. Nothing else about metempsychosis follows, given the slight and scant evidence.
60. That an atheist regime was likely to take scant notice of advice based on religious preference is self-evident.