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

Beecroft's rationale for proposing a whole series of changes weakening employment protection was the assertion, offered without evidence, that workers use their exiguous protections to get away with working below capacity.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2012

Elizabeth is effectively obliterated and yet one immediately recognises her from this exiguous after-image.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

Only an exiguous 2.5% of all Boy Scouts become Eagles, and the number of Scouts as a whole has dwindled.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of his rooms was directly above the street-door of the house; such a dormitory, when it is so exiguous, is called in the nomenclature of New York a "hall bedroom."

From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by James, Henry