scrimpy
Example Sentences
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The kids went off to school with scrimpy breakfasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old, scrimpy, frightful things as them?
From Who Spoke Next by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn a short tunic, with which, however, many dispense when at home in the barranca.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl
I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.
From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré
