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Definition of Scantiest
1. scanty [adj] - See also: scanty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scantiest
Literary usage of Scantiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"... the scantiest justice toward its fellow-countrymen may be summed up in two
words—greed and fanaticism. Who has not witnessed, at some period in his life ..."
2. The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook by James Harvey Robinson (1912)
"We detect the very scantiest indications of life, rara et disjecta, four or five
feet beneath the surface; six or seven inches down, these are abundant, ..."
3. The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook by James Harvey Robinson (1912)
"We detect the very scantiest indications of life, rara et disjecta, four or five
feet beneath the surface; six or seven inches down, these are abundant, ..."
4. The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook by James Harvey Robinson (1912)
"We detect the very scantiest indications of life, rara et disjecta, four or five
feet beneath the surface; six or seven inches down, these are abundant, ..."
5. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1904)
"Did that not leave "the scantiest hope" of ever getting a satisfactory treaty
through ? The Colombian Congress, a part of the treaty making power, ..."
6. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"We have reason to think it at least twenty-five feet deep, perhaps fifty or a
hundred; we detect the very scantiest remains of life, rara et disjecta, ..."