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scantiness

skan tee nuhs

  • n  the quality of being meager

  • No matter what the scantiness of news may be, newspapers these days almost never publish a hoax.
  • When hard, chic women are to be judged according to the scantiness of their pajamas or the tint to which they have burned their skins at Deauville or Juan-les-Pins, soft, squashy.
  • The scantiness of news from the Western Front last week caused some people to ask if the Allies were only "shadow boxing.

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