scantiest

With the scantiest possible provision they had to face a journey of upwards of a thousand miles to Kuruman, but they set forward.

Broad flat rocks lay baking in the sunshine, and only the scantiest grass struggled up between their edges.

Forgive me, dear friend, if I write in the scantiest manner, unworthily responding to letters which have touched me profoundly.

This was followed by numerous after-shocks—how numerous it is impossible to say, for the records are of the scantiest description.

Instead of the forethought she once bestowed upon the body, it receives at her hands now but the scantiest attention.