scamping
- present participle of scamp.
Example Sentences
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And there is no scamping of the invisible details.
From Time Magazine Archive
While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he has played up trivialities while scamping essentials: Becket's great career as Chancellor is passed over; his clashes with Henry, on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, go unused.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's it, but what has that to do with the scare at the tunnel and the scamping?"
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry
We may depend upon it that there was no dishonesty in contractors, no scamping of the work in the yards where the Plymouth rovers were fitted out for sea.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony
