skimpy

If their next pay raise feels skimpy, workers may want to look at their healthcare benefits before shooting a dirty look at their boss.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

They overlook that those payouts were often skimpy, many workers didn’t get the benefit, and companies that went bust left retirees in the lurch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Supino noted that Comcast didn’t take questions on its call earlier Monday and released a skimpy presentation on the split.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

As a subscriber for many decades, I’m shocked at your decision to delete the already skimpy information on TV programming recommendations in the Sunday paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

You’d have to be pretty tough to stand around giving people Maytags on a day as cold as this with those skimpy clothes on!

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

By then, the computer runs kept showing that the only way to set taxes at rates as low as they were striving for was to provide skimpier coverage than most insured Vermonters already had.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2019

Aimee Cohen, a career coach based in Denver, said relocation packages have gotten skimpier and even executives wonder how long a gig will last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2018

The skimpier plans would cover less and presumably cost less, and insurers said they would also attract healthier people.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2017

Then one day I met him on the street; he was on his way to buy an overcoat, and he was lookin' skimpier and more froze-up and genialer than ever.

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington

To say he has honored her story, though that’s true, is the skimpiest possible way to look at the achievement of “Dana H.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021

This is but the skimpiest sliver of the plot of “A Great Reckoning.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

Economics, business, society and culture get only the skimpiest treatment.

From Economist ● Feb. 18, 2016

Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a case in point, the first fortification thrown together upon the day of first landing upon Jamestown Island was of the skimpiest construction: boughs of trees cast together in the form of a half-moon.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman