0 smaller in size or amount than is considered necessary or is hoped for: --
scanty evidence/information
1 smaller in size or amount than what is considered necessary or desirable: --
As a result, a carrot canopy can only achieve a very scanty ground cover4.
However, the author's discussion of these important variables remains scanty and superficial.
The records relating to ethinyl oestradiol are, again, better: 81 women reported their periods to be on time; only one reported a scanty period.
Information on the actual life of wetnurses is scanty.
Although it is consistent, one must consider this evidence scanty.
In three vermicules were fairly numerous, in four they were scanty. 3. 9. 07.
Sowing has to be done at the right time when the rains come because rainfall is erratic and scanty.
Moreover, there is only scanty and unconvincing evidence that pension funds have pursued the effective enforcement of the pro-investor laws in court.