scrimpy
Americanadjective
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scanty; meager; barely adequate.
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tending to scrimp; frugal; parsimonious.
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Example Sentences
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The kids went off to school with scrimpy breakfasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living.
From Time Magazine Archive
A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn a short tunic, with which, however, many dispense when at home in the barranca.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
He was thinking how his pittance of pay would support, in a scrimpy way, his poor mother and sister, who looked unto him as their only hope and refuge.
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?
From They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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