exiguous

Example Sentences

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The result of the court’s linguistic analysis is an exiguous textual opinion based on parsing dictionaries instead of a functional understanding even minimally consistent with basic science.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023

As for "lasting" effects on economic growth, the average growth of GDP since 2005 has been an exiguous 0.6%.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Elizabeth is effectively obliterated and yet one immediately recognises her from this exiguous after-image.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

Only an exiguous 2.5% of all Boy Scouts become Eagles, and the number of Scouts as a whole has dwindled.

From Time Magazine Archive

But my Portuguese was dinner-table talk of the purely necessary order, and my companion's was more exiguous than my own.

From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley