Crossword-Solution: SCANTIEST
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCANTIEST | anagram | CATTINESS, TACITNESS |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SCANTIEST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like an ecdysiast's attire | 1 answer |
| Most insufficient | 1 answer |
| Word for some bikinis | 1 answer |
| Superlatively meager | 2 answers |
| Least abundant | 5 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZAEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCANTIEST (5)
Holgrave, as he told Phœbe somewhat proudly, could not boast of his origin, unless as being exceedingly humble, nor of his education, except that it had been the scantiest possible, and obtained by a few winter-months’ attendance at a district school.
And it was so delightful that this higher degree of sympathy should be reached through their interest in Lily Bart! Gerty’s affection for her friend—a sentiment that had learned to keep itself alive on the scantiest diet—had grown to active adoration since Lily’s restless curiosity had drawn her into the circle of Miss Farish’s work.
Once or twice when in his car, Death had reached for Winthrop, and only by the scantiest grace had he escaped.
Allowing only one meal a day, and that of the scantiest, I scored the hams as a cook scores a leg of roast pork, determined under no circumstances to exceed the daily ration.
Who knows, since seeds have such tenacity? Meanwhile he's dead, with scantiest laurel won And little of our Nineteenth Century gold.
Quotes with SCANTIEST (1)
Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–1983).