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Definition of Skimpily
1. Adverb. In a skimpy manner. "A skimpily dressed woman"
Definition of Skimpily
1. Adverb. In a skimpy manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skimpily
1. skimpy [adv] - See also: skimpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimpily
Literary usage of Skimpily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1879)
"There was a modern deal dressing-table skimpily draped with muslin, and surmounted
by the smallest of looking- glasses. There were a couple of chairs acd a ..."
2. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"A well-bred bee is addicted to minding his own business, and it disturbs his
temper to see a dirty, ill- kept, skimpily dressed robber slinking round for ..."
3. Evolution (1881)
"... grey linen dress was skimpily made; her hair was turning grey although she
was only twenty-five ; and, from having always been the butt and fetish of ..."
4. Horace Chase: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1894)
""There arc at least eight with the long seat which holds a man's body comfortably
as far as the knees, as it ought to held ; not ending skimpily halfway ..."
5. Horace Chase: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1894)
""There are at least eight with the long seat which holds a man's body comfortably
as far as the knees, as it ought to held; not ending skimpily halfway ..."
6. Prison Slavery by Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood, Kathryn Bardsley (1982)
"Prison education programs are inadequate, libaries are skimpily supplied and
those captives who teach themselves law and act to protect their rights through ..."
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