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Definition of Skimpiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimpiness
Literary usage of Skimpiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"... and I think the main idea was that of skimpiness or scantiness. A bonnet or
a jacket that seemed too small for the wearer, and whose trimmings were tame ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1879)
"Yes; the faded and unknown hue of the substantial brocade, the skimpiness of the
satin, the quaint devices in piping-cord and feather-stitch—must assuredly ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"These window- seats had ends rolling over outwards, and no backs, and despite
their skimpiness their elegant simplicity is decidedly pleasing. ..."
4. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"Conflicting tendencies can always be simultaneously illustrated in the vagaries
of feminine fashion, for along with this alarming "skimpiness " went the ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1899)
"... but if one may name a drawback in connection with a favourite new fashion, it
is that their extreme skimpiness renders a pocket almost impossible, ..."
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