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Retailers were hammered by the scheme because checks and balances were scant in 2012, when the eBay grifting peaked.

But even if the promised money does finally arrive, there is scant guarantee it will be used appropriately.

How sad, then, that her writings make scant mention the other great thinkers of her age.

But they provide scant details about why Alexander bought and sold shares when he did, or even how much.

Indeed there is a pre-Hispanic ceremonial site located a scant 400 meters from the outer edge of the Otomí Lake & Villas property.

History gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.

The big gray sedan carrying Delancy and his pals, hit the suburban town at a scant seventy miles an hour.

But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.

On arriving he tendered the driver sixpence, which was strictly the fare, though but scant remuneration for the distance.

These flats were free from stones and covered with a scant growth of cottonwoods and pions.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scant, such as: insufficient, mere, paltry, scanty, skimpy, and slight.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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