Sentence examples for skimpy from inspiring English sources

'skimpy' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It can be used to describe something that is small or insufficient in quantity or size, often implying that it is not enough or inadequate. Example: "The restaurant's portion sizes were quite skimpy, leaving us feeling unsatisfied after our meal."

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skimpy

adjective

Small or inadequate; not generous, or of a garment, very small, light, or revealing.

  • Have you ever seen such a skimpy bikini?

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We make champagne party!' Seeing as the champagne in Ukraine costs about £3, I was thinking that making a champagne party with them was not going to be a problem, but five bottles later, I noticed the sudden appearance of their boyfriends dressed in skimpy Speedos, white vests and flip flops.

Most jobs have basic guidelines involving a presentable and professional appearance, but when a 'uniform' involves a skimpy vest and hot pants bearing the company logo, it becomes a cause for concern.

Dividend cover of just 1.6 times looks far too skimpy in the midst of a price war that Tesco has yet to enter properly.

This is a harsh yet magnificent land of snowy peaks, distant glaciers, towering cliffs, deep ravines and a few beggarly terraces of skimpy grass.

Evidence that they reduce crime is skimpy; the vast sums spent on them would surely reduce crime more if spent instead on detective work, drug treatment and rehabilitation.The cost to prisoners and their families, meanwhile, is impossible to calculate.

But since most countries rely excessively on consumption taxes, this in turn risks aggravating inequality rather than reducing it.Data on income from capital are skimpy.

The need for brevity also steers Mr Wood into skimpy armchair psychology, and he deduces his subject's state of mind from file photographs.

Mr Field harried the government to make good the 10% tax losses; he carried on harrying it after Mr Darling made desperate but skimpy concessions.

The result is a welfare state that is skewed rather than skimpy.

While Homebrew's hardware satisfies Windows 7's requirements, its skimpy amount of random-access memory would leave little room for the new operating system to flex its muscles properly.

Instead, the recession left many patients with skimpy insurance or none, causing admissions to level off.

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