- comparative of scant.
scanter
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On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.
From Time Magazine Archive
With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was scant chance that the call would be carried to her by the boisterous wind, scanter chance still that, hearing it now in that mad rout, she would heed.
From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller
“You will get a scanter portion with your wife than you would have gotten if—we had heard no news.”
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
There's not a bourgeois couple in the land Who, should dire duty rule their severance, Could part with scanter scandal than could we.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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