scrimpy
Example Sentences
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A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living.
From Time Magazine Archive
The kids went off to school with scrimpy breakfasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn a short tunic, with which, however, many dispense when at home in the barranca.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré
Thou hast seen how Mary Minorie goes on about her bald, scrimpy husband; yet she burst out crying when he put the ring on her finger.
From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
