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

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

Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it cannot be reduced to their exiguous standard, so much the worse for it.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington