skimpily

Example Sentences

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Musically, it’s fully if a little skimpily Sondheim, and entirely worthy of his catalog.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2023

Fans of Tharpe may be disappointed by how skimpily her guitar skills are revealed in the show.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

There were enough skimpily motivated characters, to my mind, without folding in soulless monsters defined by their unstoppability.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016

Two novels, written five years apart, each a skimpily fictionalized account of a terrifying mental crack-up.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2013

They did not fare very well, though each of them negotiated some skimpily favorable remark before the protesting prosecution, which contended that personal comments of this nature were “incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial,” hushed and banished them.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote