exiguous

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The result of the court’s linguistic analysis is an exiguous textual opinion based on parsing dictionaries instead of a functional understanding even minimally consistent with basic science.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023

As for "lasting" effects on economic growth, the average growth of GDP since 2005 has been an exiguous 0.6%.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Expectorating on an enemy's final resting place is exactly the kind of exiguous act of vengeance that a contemporary injured party might just be able to manage.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2011

Lopez has only an exiguous notion of what real gay life is like, but such misapprehensions are not uncommon among young people with same-sex attractions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down in the thirsty wilderness of the rest-camps the few troops in reserve lay restless under occasional olive-trees, or huddled under the exiguous shelter of ground-sheets stretched over their scratchings in the earth.

From The Secret Battle by Herbert, A. P.