Rinri's French vocabulary is scanty and his syntax poor; he also keeps "his mouth shut as if to hide ugly teeth".
Conditions there were not much better than in a Southern prison: poor rations, scanty supplies and rampant disease adversely affected morale.
"Two billion people have hidden hunger," he said, meaning they are able to find something to eat but it may be scanty and may consist of poor quality food lacking nutrients and protein.
In transit camps in Libya before the perilous venture across the Blue Desert, they play football, fight, and pool their scanty resources so an even poorer friend can pay his way.
The soils there are poor, and mineral resources are scanty.
The oblast stretches from tundra in the north, with its scanty vegetation of mosses and lichens and poor soils, through dense swamp forests, or taiga, of spruce, fir, pine, larch, and birch, to forest-steppe with birch in the south.
Damage assessments were scanty during the night because of darkness and poor communications, but federal officials said power had been knocked out in some spots and that there were early reports of flimsy structures with tin roofs sustaining damage.
Current genomic knowledge of Lepidoptera is very scanty and the covered taxon-sampling is extremely poor and limited to six superfamiles among the 45 48 known, and to 9 families of the recognized 120 [ 4].
However, (4) a weak infrastructure, including scanty education and training in end-of-life care and a poor evidence base, that appeared to undermine the foundations on which the Liverpool Care Pathway was built.
