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  • adjective comparative form of scant: more scant

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Examples

  • To scant media attention, and even scanter government criticism, the shouts of "Death to Jews" have filled the streets of the Continent in recent weeks, as protestors, mostly Muslims, voice opposition to the war in Gaza.

    End the Holocaust Memorials 2009

  • Evidence for this is even scanter than evidence Rehberg was drunk.

    Billings Blog David 2004

  • Evidence for this is even scanter than evidence Rehberg was drunk.

    Archive 2004-06-01 David 2004

  • Evidence for this is even scanter than evidence Rehberg was drunk.

    06/01/2004 - 07/01/2004 David 2004

  • The king was somewhat scanter of hair, and that more gray than black, but the chisel-shaped nose, high cheekbones, and wide gray eyes were common to both.

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

  • The upper skirt will be made scanter, and finished with a frill; then the waist can be refreshed with the best parts of these wide flounces, and out of those new bits we will concoct a hat.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • The chestnuts, growing scanter, were replaced by dark firs and pines.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • QUOTATION: Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

    Quotations 1919

  • Here the growths of mesquite and cactus became scanter, affording better travel but poor cover.

    The Lone Star Ranger 1914

  • Jim rather unsteadily filled; I emulated, but to scanter measure.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

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