释义 |
scantyscant‧y /ˈskænti/ adjective - Beautiful women paraded by in scanty clothing.
- A great number of equestrian statues must have existed but there are scanty remains of these.
- All this imposes a powerful constraint on language acquisition from the allegedly scanty data available to any child.
- He was too far away for me to copy anything from him; the light in Martha's room was scanty.
- Her eyes flew open as Roman kissed her again, his hands stroking the soft shoulders, revealed by her scanty nightdress.
- The bushes became smaller, more scanty.
- The problem which immediately strikes one is that much of the material is scanty, fragmented, and lacking unity.
- Their ambivalence about career choices is coupled with scanty knowledge about what such jobs actually entail or what their educational requirements are.
► scantily clad scantily clad young women 1not enough: There is only scanty evidence of his involvement.2scanty clothes are small and do not cover very much of your body – used to show disapproval SYN skimpy—scantily adverb: scantily clad young women |