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
Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old, scrimpy, frightful things as them?
From Who Spoke Next by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré
From the scrimpy legs of the knickerbockers his knees shone bare and brown.
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Arthur, Frances Browne
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
