1. scanty - Noun
2. scanty - Adjective
3. scanty - Adjective Satellite
Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNo riches from his scanty store My lover could impart He gave a boon I valued more- He gave me all his heart! Helen Maria Williams
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. Bruce Chatwin
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. Franz Kafka
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish. Henry Jenner
July 1952/the 27th/This morning an exceptional defecation: two small turds in the shape of a rhinoceros horns. Such a scanty stool worries me. I would have thought the champagne, so alien to my routine, would have had a laxative effect. Salvador Dalí
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know. Robert E. Howard