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Definition of Scantest
1. scant [adj] - See also: scant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scantest
Literary usage of Scantest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... increased degree, but to be capped by an element of personal worthlessness
which it is difficult to think or speak of with the scantest patience. ..."
2. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1920)
"... I regard the attitude of Canada, which England has backed, as having the
scantest possible warrant in justice. However, there were but two alternatives. ..."
3. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1920)
"... I regard the attitude of Canada, which England has backed, as having the
scantest possible warrant in justice. However, there were but two alternatives. ..."
4. The Old Colonial System, 1660-1754 by George Louis Beer (1913)
"the laws of trade, it depended mainly upon their own volition ; and, in general,
but the scantest attention was paid by these colonies to this section of ..."
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