skimpy

1 As soon as he was out through the door my mother, clad only in her skimpy underwear, came into the kitchen, chamber pot in hand.

2 Illinois's pension funds were skimpy even before the crisis.

伊利诺伊州的养老金基金在这次危机前本就不足。

3 It came with a Razzie Award for worst supporting actress and criticism for wearing skimpy attire to play a nuclear weapons expert named Christmas Jones.

4 Christian, wearing a skimpy two-piece costume, is referred to as a mermaid because she swims a lot.

5 The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty rows.

6 In what has to be a wry allusion to Mr. Berlusconi’s taste in television, Leonardo persuades an advertising client to sign on with a new programming format that shows young girls dancing in skimpy clothes.

7 The accounts range from dancers whose mothers diligently cull men from the ranks of followers, to girls in skimpy bikinis whose parents actively encourage male admirers and sell them special photo sets.

8 The meals were skimpy and there were only two of them.

9 I spent my 21st birthday in quarantine with nary a body shot in sight and this skimpy outfit I’d bought for the occasion stuffed in a drawer.

10 They seem to occupy a third sphere of slick and pointless professionalism, where too much technique serves relatively skimpy, generic ideas.

11 By the time it appears in “The Bell Jar,” however, the dress is a symbol of dashed illusions, “a skimpy, imitation silver-lamé bodice stuck on to a big, fat cloud of white tulle.”

12 Mr. Aster writes an impressive-looking check and succeeds in cashing it, but on close examination the payout turns out to be skimpier than anticipated, and drawn mostly on someone else’s account.

13 More recently, debates about skimpy costumes tap into broader concerns about young girls growing up too quickly.

14 While more than a dozen actors put in performances that could, at least theoretically, nab them the best actor statue, the best actress category is skimpy at best.

15 She wears skimpy dresses.

她穿着暴露。

16 His wealth is a godsend not just for Alva, but for her whole blue-blooded family, who were in such dire straits as to be getting by on two skimpy meals a day.

17 What comes out of your oven will be so good, you won't need a skimpy larder as an excuse to make it.

18 After answering a casting call, she was bussed out to the desert location with more than 120 other young women, in skimpy western outfits.

19 This should have been a single CD; each disc runs thin before it ends, and the skimpy package begs for lyrics and recording information.

20 Women should wear a dress - not too short, not too skimpy and certainly not white.

女士应该穿礼服，礼服不要太短，也别太露，白色可是万万不可的。

1 不充分

bad weak inadequate deficient unsatisfactory feeble sketchy incommensurate jimp short slack ill inadequacy insufficient unequal inconclusive insufficiency inconclusiveness

2 吝惜的

grudging sparing begrudging

3 马马虎虎

short-spoken slack perfunctory anyhow so-so

4 不足的

under short weak spare slim shy incomplete insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting skimp stingy scanty scrimp scraggy scrimpy lacking poor inadequate scant meagre miserly little be short of poorly off lean defective pathetic pitiful challenged penurious niggardly mal- incommensurate gappy bad limited slight failed faint marginal stringent exiguous low measly depleted shy of

5 鄙吝的

near stingy grasping

6 不足

under short weak spare slim shy incomplete insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting skimp stingy scanty scrimp scraggy scrimpy poorly scantly olig- need want lack default failure fault absence poverty defect deficiency deficit shortage minus shortfall scarcity underage insufficiency defection paucity lacking fail come short be taken short in defect poor inadequate scant pinched meagre miserly incommensurate little inadequacy demerit poorness be lacking in out sparsely inadequately shortness be short of poorly off fall short lacking in gappy scantily skimpily slenderness scantiness skimpiness bad limited slight failed faint defective marginal stringent penurious exiguous barely imperfection dearth penury non- under- strap be nothing like run low to seek lack for pitiful weakness low measly ill crunch be light on depleted not gap drawback shy of less exiguity stinginess short coming

7 短而暴露

skimpily skimpiness

8 敷衍了事的

slipshod curt

9 敷衍了事

slipshod skimpily curt palter skimp slubber

10 暴露的

revealing

11 马马虎虎的

short-spoken slack perfunctory so-so

12 吝惜

grudging sparing begrudging illiberally skimpily stint skimp spare grudge begrudge

13 贫乏

dry poor lean miserable barren washy penurious starveling jejune necessitous poorly poverty poorness

14 缺少

poor wanting skimp scrimp unprovided want deficiency shortage shortfall scarcity shortness insufficiency dearth wantage lacking minus run short short on

15 小气的

mean small parsimonious ungenerous niggardly mingy cheeseparing close near cheap tight hungry miserable stingy sordid illiberal churlish penny-pinching tight-fisted beggarly unhandsome costive close-fisted narrow scotch miserly small-minded chintzy pimping niggard

16 缺乏

close empty weak tired absent scarce devoid barren wanting destitute stingy starved scanty privative badly-off awanting out sparsely skimpily want lack failure absence poverty deficiency hardship famine deprivation scarcity dearth paucity destitution poorness fail be void of in want of run low be lacking in be hard up be short of in the absence of devoid of pressed for

17 贫乏的

poor lean meagre niggardly dry miserable barren washy penurious starveling jejune necessitous

18 不充分的

bad weak inadequate deficient unsatisfactory feeble sketchy incommensurate jimp insufficient unequal inconclusive

19 不够的

insufficient short inadequate deficient insubstantial exiguous pitiful

20 短缺

wanting deficiency stringency shortfall

21 缺少的

poor wanting skimp scrimp unprovided lacking

22 吝啬

mean small near cheap tight careful narrow skinny miserable scotch shabby stingy grasping scanty scrimp nippy miserly screwy grudging illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chary ungenerous beggarly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing pinchpenny closefisted hardfisted ironfisted chinchy nearly meanly closeness parsimony hunks niggard pinch skimp squeeze the eagle close hungry sordid covetous penurious niggardly tight-fisted unhandsome costive close-fisted cheese-paring narrow-fisted little managing scant paltry scaly gripple skimpingly stingily charily pikerism nearness meanness smallness penury stinginess littleness miserliness illiberality chariness iron fisted

23 短缺的

wanting

24 紧

close hard fast quick tight tense pinch

25 缺乏的

close empty weak tired absent scarce devoid barren wanting destitute stingy starved scanty privative badly-off awanting be short of

26 小气

mean small parsimonious ungenerous niggardly mingy cheeseparing parsimony penury screw close near cheap tight hungry miserable stingy sordid illiberal churlish penny-pinching tight-fisted beggarly unhandsome costive close-fisted cheese-paring pinch narrow scotch miserly small-minded chintzy pimping niggard skimpingly meanly stingily pikerism meanness smallness

27 紧的

close hard fast quick tight tense

28 吝啬的

mean small near cheap tight careful narrow skinny miserable scotch shabby stingy grasping scanty scrimp nippy miserly screwy grudging illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chary ungenerous beggarly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing pinchpenny closefisted hardfisted ironfisted chinchy close hungry sordid covetous penurious niggardly tight-fisted unhandsome costive close-fisted narrow-fisted little managing scant paltry scaly niggard gripple iron fisted

29 暴露

revealing revelation break expose emerge bare betray transpire unmask come out give away

30 太紧

bind pinch

31 不够

short insufficient be lacking in inadequate deficient insubstantial insufficiency under- shy exiguous inadequacy pitiful

32 不够大的

skinny undersized undersize