Definition of "scantier" []

• Comparative form of scanty: more scanty (adjective)

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• "The scantier were the notes that were given him by those who had heard the debate, the more he had to draw on his imagination."
• "The pasture, however, was so thin that it was necessary to graze the cattle over wide stretches of ground, and the farther they went into the interior the scantier was the pasture and the larger therefore did the area of land become over which a farmer let his oxen or sheep run."
• "Schlussel prefers to see Tink in something scantier?"