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Definition of Skimpier
1. skimpy [adj] - See also: skimpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimpier
Literary usage of Skimpier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Oliver Ellsworth joined Sherman's reasoning, and Madison's notes (much skimpier
for September than earlier) made ..."
2. Those Times and These by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1917)
"His first look at her had told him she was of the same warp and texture as her
brother; somewhat skimpier in the pattern, but identical in the fabric. ..."
3. British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in by William Henry Koebel (1917)
"... devotion of space to the affairs of a single author, we must of necessity
return to skimpier notices. Just about this period it may be said that there ..."
4. British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in by William Henry Koebel (1917)
"... to the affairs of a single author, we must of necessity return to skimpier
notices. Just about this period it may be said that there were issued a ..."
5. The Burden of the Balkans by Mary Edith Durham. (1905)
"... resembling those of the Montenegrin women, but skimpier, and orange and scarlet
aprons. Plenty of silver waist-clasps and coins completed the costume. ..."
6. Out of the Jaws of Hunland: The Stories of Corporal Fred McMullen, Sniper by Fred McMullen, Jack Evans (1918)
"The food was skimpier, and had it not been for our parcels we would have been
dead a dozen times over. The Russians, particularly, suffered dreadfully since ..."
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