Definition of "skimpy" [skimpy]

• Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting: a skimpy meal. (adjective)
• Unduly thrifty; niggardly. (adjective)

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• "Trade union Solidarity on Thursday announced that it rejected what it describes as the skimpy wage increase offer of 3 percent by Metrorex's Consolidated Murchison Mine (Consmurch) outside Phalaborwa during the first round of wage negotiations at the company."
• "Yes, superheroines often are clad in skimpy outfits but Silk Spectre II takes it to a whole new level …"
• "I seem to be able to think of many, many superhero gals in skimpy outfits purely for eye candy that were perfectly successful heroines."