Scanty is valid Scrabble Word

Is scanty a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is scanty valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for SCANTY in dictionary:

NOUN:

short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
women's skimpy knickers or pants.

ADJECTIVE:

poorly supplied
small or insufficient in quantity or amount
(of clothing) revealing; skimpy
barely sufficient or not sufficient
Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
lacking in amplitude or quantity

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

meager

Words related to SCANTY

scantier10 scantiest11 scantily13 scantiness12

How to use SCANTY in a sentence

It had scanty white locks and a fringe of white whiskers under the chin, and these framed a smiling face and features that were extremely winning in expression.
For reasons sufficiently obvious, few men whose lives have been devoted to letters for an equal period, have left behind them such scanty and inadequate remains.
His letters are singularly scanty during all this period, but we possess sufficient information from other sources to enable us to reconstruct a portion of his life.
People are beginning to find they are not so wise as they had hitherto conceived themselves to be, or rather, that their knowledge on every-day subjects is very scanty.
Many authors are not mentioned and others receive scanty treatment, because of the necessities of this method of approach.
The fatiguing labor, incessant rains, and scanty food predisposed them to the dreaded fever.
Shelter and supplies will be more scanty than ever before.
Of the reign of Nabopolassar the information which has come down to us is scanty.
Having failed in the main object and brought scandal on the Church, they were maintained for some months in obscurity, and then coldly bidden to depart with scanty recompense.
Captain Lewis rose early, and having eaten nothing yesterday except his scanty meal of flour and berries felt the inconveniences of extreme hunger.

Ralph was actually engaged in putting down his very scanty accusations against Sir Thomas More when the letter from Beatrice was brought up to him.
The dress of the Tarahumare is always very scanty, even where he comes in contact with the whites.
Observations in support of this view, however, are too scanty to allow of a definite judgment.
Arthur saw the feet of the sleeping man raising the scanty clothes into a sharp little eminence, as if he was lying flat on his back.
He could not help contrasting this splendid equipment with the scanty packs which his own men had carried.
And the tents were but a thin shelter, and clothing was scanty, and the men suffered.
For the earliest period we are left with somewhat scanty evidence.
Meantime Mary drew out the little table which served them, spread upon it its white cloth, and laid the knives and forks, scanty enough in their number.
The good soul with whom I am lodging is calling me to my scanty repast.
His hair was short, just covering his ears, and his scanty beard was thin, black, and well arranged.
Where these did not grow, the natives got along as best they could on scanty common crops, and by raising a few sheep and hogs.
On this account, and because our stock of provisions had become scanty, as we had been near a year at sea, we resolved on returning to Spain.
And as the mountains decline into hills, and the hills into downs and flats, the covering of herbage becomes less and less scanty.
Recognition of the deeds done by the dauntless heroes of that age in the Government service was very scanty.
Then the poor are trodden down and have to give large parts of their scanty harvests to the rich.

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