scant
adjective
barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate.
scanted
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past participleof scant.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof scant.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
scantadjectivebarely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate.
Example Sentences
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Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016
Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
Add to this Krasner's prickly contempt for diplomacy with critics, and one can see why for most of her life her work was scanted as "minor," an appendage to Pollock's.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 19th day of September in the morning, coming to Tercera, and intending to edge into the road, a tempest arose and so scanted the wind that we could not get in.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
