Example Sentences

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Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2016

Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015

He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer.

From Time Magazine Archive

There be pickings and leavings there as in an hostelry, a nimble wit needed in both places indifferently, and for the rest, work to be scanted and lies to be told.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.