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scantiest

ADJECTIVE

inadequate

Synonyms

WEAK

bare barely sufficient close deficient exiguous failing insufficient limited little meager minimal narrow poor rare restricted scrimpy short shy skimpy slender spare sparing sparse stingy thin tight wanting

Antonyms

WEAK

abundant adequate ample covering plentiful substantial sufficient

ADJECTIVE

inadequate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

insufficient meager scant skimpy sparse

STRONG

close failing limited little narrow poor short shy spare

WEAK

bare barely sufficient deficient exiguous minimal rare restricted scrimpy slender sparing stingy thin tight wanting

Antonyms

STRONGEST

adequate enough full sufficient

STRONG

OK generous great large open strong thick unreserved unrestricted

WEAK

abundant ample plentiful

Example Sentences

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It would be cool if people could refrain from being their absolute scummiest, occasionally.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2022

Dish towels are some of the scummiest things in your kitchen.

From Time • Jul. 14, 2017

Starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as the kind of comedically frayed problem-solvers found at the scummiest pulp’s logical conclusion, the film looks to reclaim the magic of Black’s comedy/mystery hybrid Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2016

Stocky paparazzi, wearing the same cargo-shorts-black-logo-tee uniform they wear on the scummiest corners of Hollywood Boulevard, lug their gear down the sidewalk in search of that perfect shot to sell to an Italian tabloid.

From The Verge • May 15, 2015

Since then, as often as he has time, he goes to bathe in the scummiest parts, and then comes and tells me all about it with any amount of circumstantial evidence.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir