Definition of "exiguous" [ex•ig•u•ous]

• Extremely scanty; meager. (adjective)

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• "His exiguous chapter on slavery in American Notes was lazily annexed word-for-word from a famous abolitionist pamphlet of the day, and employed chiefly to discredit the whole American idea."
• "He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England."
• "So, I went to China with an exiguous expense account, a list of places to be visited and described and a very rudimentary command of Mandarin."