scant
adjective
barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate.
scants
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present tense formof scant (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
While “Kissinger” scants the tapes, it leans precariously on one source.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
In her impressionistic portrait, Brown moves some events in time, combines others and scants certain family members — entirely omitting, for example, William’s son, John, a famous scientist in his own right.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2016
Tales is being given its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater in an intelligent, well-articulated production that scants none of the play's corrosive undertones.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Now lovely woman scants her dress, with bandages the sick to bless; and stoops so far to war's alarms, her very frock is under arms!"
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
