Scantier
[skænti:ə]
Examples
- I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The only evidence of her last return now, were the scantier moveables in his room, and the grayer hair upon his head. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Things hang together, he added, looking on the floor and moving his feet uneasily with a sense that words were scantier than thoughts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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