scanty

adj

1. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.

   “A girl dressed in scanty clothing”

   “To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain.”

   “[…]and we cannot but regret that the imperfect morality of those days, which saw glory in the valour of freemen, rebellion only in that of slaves, should have left us but frigid and scanty accounts of so obstinate a siege.”

   “Present on the table, one scanty pot of tea, one scanty loaf, two scanty pats of butter, two scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain.”

   “His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.”

2. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.

   “In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.”