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  • noun Plural form of scant.
  • noun A type of underwear worn by men.

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Examples

  • With its essential focus on Harlem, the Gill book necessarily scants other chapters of African-American life in the city.

    The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011

  • This point of view is very successful at accounting for the arbitrarily fast connection between the outcomes of correlated measurements, but it scants the objective features of the quantum state.

    Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009

  • Feature films are, by their slow-gestating nature, unable to rival the spectacular sizzle of a Tina Fey skewering Sarah Palin, but this one also scants the steak.

    'W.' for Whoa: A Freudian Trip to Oval Office 2008

  • Feature films are, by their slow-gestating nature, unable to rival the spectacular sizzle of a Tina Fey skewering Sarah Palin, but this one also scants the steak.

    A Freudian trip to the Oval Office 2008

  • That's not to say the story scants the show's L-words, Labels and Love.

    Bigger, longer, duller 2008

  • That's not to say the story scants the show's L-words, Labels and Love.

    'Sex and the City' 2008

  • That's not to say the story scants the show's L-words, Labels and Love.

    'Sex' without the TV show's wit 2008

  • Eliot Weinberger's discussion of Susan Sontag's "unashamed" Eurocentrism scants consideration of her taste in cinema, an art she loved as much as literature, and thereby diminishes it.

    'Notes on Susan': An Exchange Farrell, Jane 2007

  • In so doing of course he scants actual usage, the elucidation of which is presumably why he wrote the article.

    Orientalism: An Exchange Grabar, Oleg 1982

  • As the clearing away of the woods scants the streams, may not our civilization have dried up some feeders that helped to swell the current of individual and personal force?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

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