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91scanty — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. scarce, scant, meager, sparse, barely sufficient, insufficient, inadequate, spare, few, pinched, little, small, bare, slender, narrow, thin, scrimp, scrimpy, tiny, diminutive, short, stingy, in short supply, skimpy*,… …
92Insufficiency — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insufficiency >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insufficiency insufficiency Sgm: N 1 inadequacy inadequacy inadequateness Sgm: N 1 incompetence incompetence &c.(impotence) 158 Sgm: N 1 deficiency deficiency… …
93stint — (v.) to limit, restrain, to be sparing or frugal, O.E. styntan to blunt, make dull, from P.Gmc. *stuntijanan (Cf. O.N. stuttr short, scant, M.H.G. stunz blunt, short, Ger. stutzen to cut short, curtail, stop, hesitate ), from PIE root * (s)teu to …
94beggarly — a. 1. Destitute, indigent, needy, poor. 2. Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, mean spirited, niggardly, stingy, scant, wretched,… …
95penurious — a. 1. Niggard, scanty, insufficient, inadequate, meagre, ill provided, poor, stinted. 2. Parsimonious, covetous, avaricious, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, sordid, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, close fisted, hard fisted, grasping, near …
96niggard — I. n. Miser, curmudgeon, churl, hunks, lickpenny, skinflint, scrimp, screw, mean fellow, sordid wretch. II. a. Parsimonious, miserly, covetous, sparing, stinted, niggardly …
97spare — I. v. a. 1. Reserve, save, lay by, lay aside, set apart, set aside. 2. Dispense with, do without, part with. 3. Withhold, omit, forbear, refrain from. 4. Withhold from, keep from. 5. Give, grant, afford, allow, give up. 6. Preserve (from anything …
98cupidity — cupidity, greed, rapacity, avarice are comparable when meaning intense desire for wealth or possessions. Cupidity stresses the intensity and compelling nature of the desire and often suggests covetousness as well {the sight of so much wealth… …
99rich — rich, wealthy, affluent, opulent are applied both to persons and to things. The last three are close synonyms of rich, the general term, but they are more explicit in their implications and more limited in their range of application. One is rich… …
100hungry — adj 1. starving, famishing, craving, esurient, appetitive; hungering, ravening, ravenous, sharp set; famished, starved, peckish; half starved, half famished, hungry as a bear, growling. 2. desirous, wishful, wistful, longing, yearning, pining;… …