scanting
- present participle of scant.
Example Sentences
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But focusing too intently on the play’s stimulating politics risks scanting its humor and its family dynamics.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2017
He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.
From Time Magazine Archive
What some describe as today's apathy or scanting of heaven, he calls health.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second offering of its premiere engagement in Los Angeles, the British National Theater performs with its usual eclat while somewhat scanting the poetic mood music of the play.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wind scanting upon us, we could not fetch the land, so that we were forced to ply to windward.
