The phrase 'scant description' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something (usually an object or concept) has been described in very little detail or in an inadequate way. For example, "The police report gave a scant description of the suspect, leaving many questions unanswered."
But it is easy to imagine, knowing only this scant description of events, eyebrows rising among the living at the medical examiner's office upon the arrival of the body.
There is scant description of the vicious, Medieval-style wars of siege and looting and rape elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia, even though it was the West's belated action to halt "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia and Bosnia that eventually shamed NATO into action over Kosovo.
The real story of what HG does to a woman is not the the scant description provided on its Wiki.
The real story of what HG does to a woman is not the scant description provided on its Wiki.
Other comparable reports from major refineries in Dubai and elsewhere also offer only very scant descriptions where inspectors have discovered failings, suggesting this may be emerging as common industry practice for these new reports.
There are scant descriptions of who these speakers are (and you have to flick to the back to find them), and you are often left dangling as to why we're hearing from them at all.
Furthermore, the approaches for interrogating text data (even scant descriptions) have applicability across systems regardless of the comprehensiveness of the text, though more detailed descriptions would certainly enable more complete ascertainment of cases.
Do not work solely from photographs; if your field guide provides photographs, but only scant descriptions, it is not a safe field guide to use.
"Augustown" doesn't match the stereotype of a "poet's novel"—that is, it isn't introspective, replete with long passages of description, and scant of plot.
It was another from Huth at another set piece, this time a simple matter of rising higher than anyone else and nodding Christian Fuchs's deep corner back over the head of a powerless Hart, though that bald description does scant justice to the part Vardy played in winning the corner.
Jose's descriptions were scant because there was nothing too riveting to discuss.
