"exiguous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means very small in size or amount. For example, "The homeless man was living on an exiguous amount of money."
Such a stance, of course, involves taking great risks with the lives of other people one is in no position to consult, by urging on a military and political authority over which we have at most extremely exiguous checks.
As some had been existing on the exiguous salaries paid by opposition parties to their advisers, this led to some obvious inequities.
Now in its 84th impression in Spanish, it remains a fixture on the exiguous shelves devoted to Latin America in bookshops in Europe and the United States.
Thus Lenin's revolutionary genius was not confined to his ability to divide his enemies; more important was his skill in finding allies and friends for the exiguous proletariat of Russia.
It is not so much "spare" as exiguous.
They can be rammed into exiguous rental car spaces and pass most modern carry-on tests.
Most discussions of historiography focus on how historians tease out the exiguous meanings of documents when they are very scarce.
His formally exiguous credentials he would confess to by scorning others: Some of the stylish, custom thinkers who work over each thought with extreme care, often spending weeks on a single lovely little job of ratiocination, think that I think trash, but I don't care to go that far.
In 1996, the Dorset Hotel (fondly remembered for its exiguous lobby and slow elevators) and several adjacent brownstones on Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth came up for sale, and the museum acquired them, giving it a property stretching from St. Thomas Church, on Fifth Avenue, to the Museum of American Folk Art, a few doors up from Sixth Avenue.
Prince's nearest approach to identifiable emotion is the exiguous zeal of obsessive collecting.
In fact, it calls both for superb fine-motor skills and for adherence to the most exiguous formal demands.
