Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a skimping manner; scantily; sparingly.

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  • adverb So as to skimp; stingily; insufficiently.

Etymologies

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skimping +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But the Squire and his son, Frank, were large-hearted generous creatures in the article of apology, as in all things less skimpingly dealt out.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • But the squire and his son, Frank, were large-hearted generous creatures in the article of apology, as in all things less skimpingly dealt out.

    My Novel — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But the squire and his son, Frank, were large-hearted generous creatures in the article of apology, as in all things less skimpingly dealt out.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • She was anything but aggressive and confident, yet there was a modest, puny poise about her; she was like a plant that has always lived in a narrow, city flower-pot, at a window too seldom visited by the sun, which has never known the freedom of the rain, but has been skimpingly watered out of a toy watering-pot; which has never so much as conceived of the daring and voluptuous charms of its remote sisters of the forest and garden, but has cherished its rudimentary perfume and its incipient tints in a light reflected from brick walls and in the thin, stale atmosphere of rear sitting-rooms.

    Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

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