- comparative of scant.
scanter
Example Sentences
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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
From this time Be something scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate Than a command to parley.
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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
It was a scanter and shallower stream, however, than when he left it, for now the long heats of the summer had shrunken all the watercourses.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
