scantiness

1 Both these works appear, in design, to have owed something to Stothard; for Chantrey knew his own scantiness of ideal invention or composition, and on system sought aid from others for such attempts.

2 And here they agreed to disembark to see if they could light upon any inhabited place where they could take some souls to add to the scantiness of their first booty.

3 Such are the matters which, in view of the excessive scantiness of time, I have been able to collect in discharge of my duty for the defence of these poor prisoners.

4 The time of the year in which the farmers suffer most from them, is in the spring, before their enormous congregations disperse, and when they are rendered voracious by the scantiness of their winter fare.

5 Reference has been made to the scantiness of the attire of the Paraguayan women at one period of the war.

6 When evidence was scanty, or when misconduct needed to be covered up, police routinely perjured themselves to make sure case outcomes turned out as desired.

7 The peasantry to the south wear the Montenegrian dress; the poorer ones, in extreme scantiness.

8 The scantiness of the furniture in this huge Castle of Montalme added to its forlorn aspect; nor was the slightest deference paid to prevailing fashion.

9 For the first two hundred yards the travelling is easy because of this very scantiness of the fern and underwood; but then there seems to rise up a thick wall of vegetation.

10 Such as exist in written form make up for their scantiness in number by the qualities of wonder and beauty which inform them.

11 He looked about him critically, the condescension of his manner contrasting curiously with the scantiness of his apparel.

12 In the sunshine outside a large convention center in the southern Spanish city of Estepona, some very fit-looking people in scanty clothing applied fake tans and rehearsed statuesque poses.

13 Given the scantiness of his policy proposals and seeming indifference to the details of governance, it’s not exactly clear what it all adds up to or why Mr. Trump wants to be president.

14 After all, perhaps the latter pair were the ones to be envied, as the heat thus engendered made the scantiness of the bedding less apparent.

15 The absence of His followers would account for the scantiness of our information as to this period.

16 But had we been restricted to the use of such apparel as we could make, I fear we should have been reduced to even more than fashionable scantiness of attire.

17 Kalisch points out that "the great scantiness of food? on which the serpent can subsist, gave rise to the belief, entertained by many Eastern nations, that they eat dust."

18 But these nations, through the scantiness of their resources, never attained to such power as Sparta and Athens.

19 Dean Swift, full of wit and penury, writing from his London lodging to Stella in her comfortable Irish home, breaks into frequent outbursts at the scantiness of his comforts.

20 The statement is probably as fair as the facts in the compiler's possession could make it; yet it is seriously vitiated by the scantiness of those facts.

1 少量

light meagre some drop element grain handful dash scrap splash sprinkle pinch puff mite dab blob spoonful trifle morsel sprinkling smattering modicum smallness pennyworth driblet

2 欠缺

privative awanting scantly deficiently

3 缺乏

absent deficient wanting lacking scanty want lack failure absence deficiency shortage deprivation dearth out fail

4 稀稀拉拉

scanty trickle

5 不足

short poor shy insufficient scarce skimpy scanty incommensurate gappy poorly inadequately scantily skimpily shortfall paucity slenderness skimpiness lack