The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SCANTY
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More clues leading to the result SCANTY
- Inadequate study: half of type’s missed
- Revealing where the pigs are eating food tin
- Inadequate place to go in dirty dwelling
- Meagre inflammation containing discharge
- Revealing to find heartless spy full of sanctimonious talk
- Bare image temporarily vacant
- Inadequate lavatory in filthy place
- Inadequate
- Spare pen is able to be slipped in
- Pound to secure vessel, barely enough
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What does SCANTY mean?
SCANTY adjective- Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
- Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.