skimpy
- lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- too thrifty; stingy: a skimpy housekeeper.
Origin of skimpy
Related Words for skimpy
scanty, meager, tight, thin, scant, insufficient, deficient, exiguous, failing, miserly, poor, scrimp, short, shy, spare, stingy, wanting, niggardly, scrimpyExamples from the Web for skimpy
Contemporary Examples of skimpy
During her 2011 tour of Canada, a skimpy yellow frock flew skywards on a Calgary airfield.
His minimalist performance was so haunting—and his Oscar track record so skimpy—that I figured he was a lock.
Skimpy bralets and short-shorts take the cake in Britney Spears's new music video for her new anthem.
Spears works a series of fabulous, skimpy looks in her video.
They lean against the fence, hips jutted out, their legs exposed by scanty pink shorts and skimpy dresses.
Historical Examples of skimpy
Why had she not prevailed over her mother's fear of being "skimpy?"
Alice AdamsBooth Tarkington
Not that it wasn't simple enough, but it sure was skimpy above the belt.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
It is skimpy in the extreme, but at any rate it is something.
The Glow-Worm and Other BeetlesJean Henri Fabre
The flesh all these skimpy ones had lost, solid people had put on.
The FreelandsJohn Galsworthy
What with the skimpy skirt and the high heels she could scarcely walk.
Ruth Fielding Down EastAlice B. Emerson
skimpy
- (of clothes, etc) made of too little material; scanty
- excessively thrifty; mean; stingy