scrimpy

Those people who are living on scrimpy Social Securtiy checks?

Firedoglake » Lotus 1-2-3 and the Politics of 1992 2006

To a scrimpy and screwy man, of the type most abundant, such a position would have done a deal of harm, shutting him up into his own shell harder, and flinting its muricated horns against the world.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

From the scrimpy legs of the knickerbockers his knees shone bare and brown.

Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

She was determined to do her part, she said: she should be mighty glad to help get that skinchy-scrimpy look out of Miss

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow.

Lydia of the Pines Honor�� Morrow 1910

A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

To a scrimpy and screwy man, of the type most abundant, such a position would have done a deal of harm, shutting him up into his own shell harder, and flinting its muricated horns against the world.

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

PERUGINO (_Pietro_): known by his narrow, contracted figures and scrimpy drapery (1446-1524).

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Molly opened it, and there stood Miss Browning, in a wonderful erection of a nightcap, and scantily attired in a coloured calico jacket over her scrimpy and short white petticoat.

Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

I mean: there they are, all multiethnic yet homespun, chock-full of scrimpy rightwing family values, thinking globally and acting locally, checking their ten-dollar Indian laptops to see whose turn it is to turn the compost heap ...

Warren Ellis 2009