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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91. Since the extant literature about Xia Dynasty is scant and uncomplete , and most of those literature are traced by later generations, so modem scholars explore Xia Culture by using archaeology.
92. Loan data from U. S. credit-card issuers offered scant evidence of an imminent turnaround, dashing hopes that positive trends from a month earlier were gaining momentum.
93. Urban Honolulu, the state capital, is a cosmopolitan metropolis with a population of more than 370,000; the entire island of Molokai, a scant 50 miles away, has only 7,400 residents.
94. But there would be scant need to worry about a broad slip in productivity.
95. In the scant century and a half since then, we've bumped atmospheric carbon dioxide up to 390 ppm.
96. In fact, Richard Savage had known Edward Bellamy a scant five hours.
97. Organizations make themselves "more slimly and more scant" to answer a world- wide competition by the innovation of whittling down people and adopting new originality such as TQM and JIT.
97. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
98. When the boar was a scant seventy - five feet away, he fired.
99. With inflation still too high, cautious central bankers see scant reason for abandoning their hawkish rhetoric.
100. Surviving on the scant rain that falls on the high desert, the surrounding natural scrubland uses far less water. The scrubland, shown in the upper left corner of the image, is tan and pale blue.
101. The regular entrance of thirty-five dollars a week to one who has endured scant allowances for several years is a demoralising thing.
102. However, he paid the scant attention - everybody to their own troubles.
103. We prattle about scientific discoveries, but we have made scant use of them for our benefit.
104. In UNIX days of yore (a scant two decades ago), you typically accessed a UNIX machine through a dumb terminal.
105. But the fact is, said many experts, the EU won't cozy up to an autocratic power with rampant government corruption, an arbitrary legal system, and scant regard for human rights.
106. It was a great break in the breeding and offered an apparent increase to the propagation coefficient of the slash pine, which solved the scant supply of its seedlings.
107. As she spoke, her five-year-old twins hid in the folds of her tattered brown skirt, which would be scant protection from the annual rains and malaria-carrying mosquitos due in force within days.
108. As in other countries, data on health-care fraud are scant in China, but Hu believes that medical insurance fraud is widespread.
109. The atrophic glands have scant cytoplasm and hyperchromatic nuclei with occasional punctate nucleoli.
110. It does, after all, keep them from focusing on the scant musical offerings of the past year a dismal period in terms of new creative genius, or even mildly original schlock.
111. While there are many minor variations of the Soundex algorithm, they all have scant knowledge of English spelling rules, not to mention the exceptions to these rules.
112. Georges Cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.
113. They wear white, full-body jumpsuits with snug-fitting hoods that provide scant protection from the invisible radiation sleeting through their bodies.
114. President Obama declared in a 2009 speech that protecting computer network infrastructure "will be a national security priority." But the follow-through has been scant.
115. There is scant evidence of strong economic growth to come.
116. This high power microscopic aearance of cardiac myxoma shows minimal cellularity. Only scattered indle cells with scant pink cytoplasm are present in a loose myxoid stroma.
117. This prototype was created for an actual hearing-aid manufacturer, but the functional details are scant and in German.
118. The losers have been ordinary citizens, ousted from their homes with cut-rate compensation and scant legal recourse.
119. There is scant information on the chance of such molecules reacting within the object or its immediate container before escaping into the larger space of the room and eventually to the outside.
120. The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it.