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
Sadly scanted, however, are the American artists who heeded the siren call of Orientalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could not, at any moment, help showing herself an intellectual and cultivated woman, but her opportunities to show herself a woman of rare social gifts had been scanted by circumstances and perhaps by conscience.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean
