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Definition of scant in English: scantadjective skantskænt 1Barely sufficient or adequate. companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations Example sentencesExamples - I live in the Bingley area where a scant amount of my council tax is spent (be it only on my dustbin being emptied).
- The relatively scant amount of English written law is due not to wars and problems of documentary survival, but to its distance from post-Roman legal culture.
- Still, with just this scant amount of evidence, that one news source made it sound like your car might be vulnerable to viruses passed on from passing cars.
- Concern has particularly arisen in view of younger men having paid scant attention to the richness of their culture.
- Before, scant data existed on the quantity of fluoride in the national food supply and, therefore, on our overall dietary fluoride consumption.
- There is a scant amount of data available, severely limiting the kinds of conclusions one can draw.
- You adapted the monarchy successfully to the modern world - and that has been a challenge because it is a world that can pay scant regard to tradition and often values passing fashions above enduring faith.
- The limited information provided on this test was scant and imprecise, and I found it of no assistance.
- Sometimes, she relied on her live-in boyfriend, the father of her last child, to provide for the household but his scant contribution was hardly enough to pay the rent and put food on the table.
- The ball was pumped high and handsome from end to end, with scant regard for skill or teamwork, and this took place in perfect conditions on a summer's evening that appeared to be made for football.
- He didn't put ads on the site and used a scant amount of donations to pay for the server.
- This mainstream inward-investment effort paid scant attention to financial services or any other part of the non-manufacturing side of business.
- And scant evidence suggests DDT gets into the environment in significant amounts when sprayed indoors.
- So far they've paid scant attention to the rebel's scheme.
- You chose to use the motorway with scant regard for others, for your own purposes and your own enjoyment, and that is a crime in itself.
- Various military commanders were sent to the troubled colony, but they were given limited resources and scant encouragement from home.
- With scant regard for human life or political consequences, employing violence as their sole instrument of persuasion, they slaughtered innocent people indiscriminately.
- But of course it's there in the small print, and it's paid scant attention to.
- Dismissing cochlear implants as risky, very expensive and of limited achievement does scant justice to their proven value.
- In the scant amount of light from the street lights, I was able to make out his face, not exactly clearly, but enough to know who it was.
Synonyms little, little or no, minimal, hardly any, limited, negligible, barely sufficient, meagre insufficient, too little, not enough, inadequate, deficient rare exiguous - 1.1attributive Barely amounting to a specified number or quantity.
she weighed a scant two pounds Example sentencesExamples - At 16 years old and a scant 118 pounds, Swan was a stick figure, to say the least.
- Hardly wearing out its welcome at a scant 50 minutes, the feature is accompanied by the shorts Intent, Strap 'Em Down!
verb skantskænt [with object]North American 1Provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts. he does not scant his attention to the later writings - 1.1 Deal with inadequately; neglect.
the press regularly scants a host of issues relating to safety and health Example sentencesExamples - His conception of power is reflexive and scants the complexity of New York's political culture.
- This meant that events presumably of interest mainly to Poles - such as the 1944 Rising - would often be scanted by the media.
- By scanting phonics, the city has actually put minority kids at double risk.
- But perhaps this scants heaven in favor of earth.
- It should also be noted that the bottom of the socio-economic distribution is scanted in these data because this segment of the population is not favored by adoption agencies.
- Our unprecedented affluence also explains much, although its role as a facilitator has been relatively scanted in most discussions of anti-Americanism that I have seen.
- Now it's Mozart's poise, craft and wit that tend to get scanted.
- Since all the power of psychodrama resides in the human face and voice, the physical world is scanted and this limits the visual aspects of the moviemaking.
- This point of view is very successful at accounting for the arbitrarily fast connection between the outcomes of correlated measurements, but it scants the objective features of the quantum state.
- She scants other, more familiar modes of inquiry in favor of her psychological model.
- In one way or another, all these moves in its backyard overrode or scanted EU sensibilities.
- A high operations tempo means that generals, understandably, strain every nerve to keep front line units manned with the best people - even if that scants the educational system of teachers and top students.
- Having given out forms enough to beget activity in human taste, she scants her work that we may go on and exert a creative fancy for ourselves.
Derivatives adverb ˈskantliˈskæntli The effect of ethanol on the feeding behaviour of animals is scantly documented and the understanding of the factors influencing alcohol ingestion is limited. Example sentencesExamples - Many are not aware that this song was scantly known during the lifetime of Bankim himself.
- They have wonderful calamari, pale as dawn light, scantly breaded, quickly fried, and just as buoyant as a breeze.
- They put pictures of scantly clad women on their covers.
- The babies, unfortunately, remain scantly seen as in the first film.
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Origin Middle English: from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr 'short'. Rhymes ant, Brabant, Brandt, brant, cant, enceinte, extant, gallant, Kant, levant, pant, pointe, pointes, rant Definition of scant in US English: scantadjectiveskæntskant 1Barely sufficient or adequate. companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations Example sentencesExamples - So far they've paid scant attention to the rebel's scheme.
- The ball was pumped high and handsome from end to end, with scant regard for skill or teamwork, and this took place in perfect conditions on a summer's evening that appeared to be made for football.
- I live in the Bingley area where a scant amount of my council tax is spent (be it only on my dustbin being emptied).
- Still, with just this scant amount of evidence, that one news source made it sound like your car might be vulnerable to viruses passed on from passing cars.
- The relatively scant amount of English written law is due not to wars and problems of documentary survival, but to its distance from post-Roman legal culture.
- And scant evidence suggests DDT gets into the environment in significant amounts when sprayed indoors.
- Various military commanders were sent to the troubled colony, but they were given limited resources and scant encouragement from home.
- In the scant amount of light from the street lights, I was able to make out his face, not exactly clearly, but enough to know who it was.
- Concern has particularly arisen in view of younger men having paid scant attention to the richness of their culture.
- Sometimes, she relied on her live-in boyfriend, the father of her last child, to provide for the household but his scant contribution was hardly enough to pay the rent and put food on the table.
- But of course it's there in the small print, and it's paid scant attention to.
- With scant regard for human life or political consequences, employing violence as their sole instrument of persuasion, they slaughtered innocent people indiscriminately.
- There is a scant amount of data available, severely limiting the kinds of conclusions one can draw.
- You chose to use the motorway with scant regard for others, for your own purposes and your own enjoyment, and that is a crime in itself.
- You adapted the monarchy successfully to the modern world - and that has been a challenge because it is a world that can pay scant regard to tradition and often values passing fashions above enduring faith.
- Before, scant data existed on the quantity of fluoride in the national food supply and, therefore, on our overall dietary fluoride consumption.
- He didn't put ads on the site and used a scant amount of donations to pay for the server.
- Dismissing cochlear implants as risky, very expensive and of limited achievement does scant justice to their proven value.
- This mainstream inward-investment effort paid scant attention to financial services or any other part of the non-manufacturing side of business.
- The limited information provided on this test was scant and imprecise, and I found it of no assistance.
Synonyms little, little or no, minimal, hardly any, limited, negligible, barely sufficient, meagre - 1.1attributive Barely amounting to a specified number or quantity.
she weighed a scant two pounds Example sentencesExamples - Hardly wearing out its welcome at a scant 50 minutes, the feature is accompanied by the shorts Intent, Strap 'Em Down!
- At 16 years old and a scant 118 pounds, Swan was a stick figure, to say the least.
verbskæntskant [with object]North American 1Provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts. he does not scant his attention to the later writings - 1.1 Deal with inadequately; neglect.
the press regularly scants a host of issues relating to safety and health Example sentencesExamples - By scanting phonics, the city has actually put minority kids at double risk.
- It should also be noted that the bottom of the socio-economic distribution is scanted in these data because this segment of the population is not favored by adoption agencies.
- Our unprecedented affluence also explains much, although its role as a facilitator has been relatively scanted in most discussions of anti-Americanism that I have seen.
- This meant that events presumably of interest mainly to Poles - such as the 1944 Rising - would often be scanted by the media.
- Having given out forms enough to beget activity in human taste, she scants her work that we may go on and exert a creative fancy for ourselves.
- Now it's Mozart's poise, craft and wit that tend to get scanted.
- She scants other, more familiar modes of inquiry in favor of her psychological model.
- Since all the power of psychodrama resides in the human face and voice, the physical world is scanted and this limits the visual aspects of the moviemaking.
- In one way or another, all these moves in its backyard overrode or scanted EU sensibilities.
- But perhaps this scants heaven in favor of earth.
- This point of view is very successful at accounting for the arbitrarily fast connection between the outcomes of correlated measurements, but it scants the objective features of the quantum state.
- His conception of power is reflexive and scants the complexity of New York's political culture.
- A high operations tempo means that generals, understandably, strain every nerve to keep front line units manned with the best people - even if that scants the educational system of teachers and top students.
Origin Middle English: from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr ‘short’. |