skimpily

Example Sentences

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Her campaign was a long shot, late in starting, skimpily funded and repeatedly overhauled.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Indeed, he’s thriving thanks to a long-running but skimpily detailed secret project he calls Chippin’ In.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

There were enough skimpily motivated characters, to my mind, without folding in soulless monsters defined by their unstoppability.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016

Two novels, written five years apart, each a skimpily fictionalized account of a terrifying mental crack-up.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013

They did not fare very well, though each of them negotiated some skimpily favorable remark before the protesting prosecution, which contended that personal comments of this nature were “incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial,” hushed and banished them.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote