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
Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?
From They and I by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Molly opened it, and there stood Miss Browning, in a wonderful erection of a nightcap, and scantily attired in a coloured calico jacket over her scrimpy and short white petticoat.
From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
He was thinking how his pittance of pay would support, in a scrimpy way, his poor mother and sister, who looked unto him as their only hope and refuge.
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)
