skimpy

If their next pay raise feels skimpy, workers may want to look at their healthcare benefits before shooting a dirty look at their boss.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Supino noted that Comcast didn’t take questions on its call earlier Monday and released a skimpy presentation on the split.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

He arrived without a driver’s license, according to Christopher Simon Sykes’s biography of the artist, and barely passed the test after a skimpy tutorial on a friend’s pickup truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

As a subscriber for many decades, I’m shocked at your decision to delete the already skimpy information on TV programming recommendations in the Sunday paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

“For you this will be plenty,” pronounced Tata Ndu, pointing at the same skimpy hindquarter in the dirt.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Dworsky said he didn’t have evidence that the amount of chocolate in these boxes is any skimpier than in previous years.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193 Thursday, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

Aimee Cohen, a career coach based in Denver, said relocation packages have gotten skimpier and even executives wonder how long a gig will last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2018

At the fontanelle the pulse beneath the skin throbbed terrifyingly, and the fuzz on his skull was skimpier than pin-feathers on a fledgling.

From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine

To say he has honored her story, though that’s true, is the skimpiest possible way to look at the achievement of “Dana H.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021

This is but the skimpiest sliver of the plot of “A Great Reckoning.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

Economics, business, society and culture get only the skimpiest treatment.

From Economist ● Feb. 18, 2016

The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a case in point, the first fortification thrown together upon the day of first landing upon Jamestown Island was of the skimpiest construction: boughs of trees cast together in the form of a half-moon.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee