skimpy
adjective
lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty.
skimpily
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a word derived from
skimpy.
Example Sentences
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Fans of Tharpe may be disappointed by how skimpily her guitar skills are revealed in the show.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
They seem to be in thrall to a mysterious character named Thorpe, and, like those experimental communities bankrolled by Robert Owen, they’re funded, skimpily, by a rich copper smelter from Swansea.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
There were enough skimpily motivated characters, to my mind, without folding in soulless monsters defined by their unstoppability.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
Two novels, written five years apart, each a skimpily fictionalized account of a terrifying mental crack-up.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2013
They did not fare very well, though each of them negotiated some skimpily favorable remark before the protesting prosecution, which contended that personal comments of this nature were “incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial,” hushed and banished them.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
