skimpy
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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
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
The bath towel was skimpy but the counters for drying your hair and getting ready were a nice touch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Zepeda also said that skimpy staffing had piled on pressure at her job to clean as many as 15 rooms before the end of her shift without being offered overtime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Her thin arms, under the skimpy jumper, were blue with cold.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Dworsky said he didn’t have evidence that the amount of chocolate in these boxes is any skimpier than in previous years.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
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
At the fontanelle the pulse beneath the skin throbbed terrifyingly, and the fuzz on his skull was skimpier than pin-feathers on a fledgling.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
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
This time, what with tired writing, so lugubrious a hero, and the skimpiest knowledge of newspapers, the right may not be enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lois the housemaid, was the smallest and skimpiest and most angular girl I ever beheld.
From Station Amusements in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
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