skimpy
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈskɪm.pi/
- NSFW
:
revelador
- The Ice Princess stands here, near the lip of the building, shivering in her skimpy costume.
- wear skimpy clothes
- skimpy clothing
- a skimpy outfit
He'd actually changed his clothes into like like tennis sneakers, like hot pants and like a skimpy top.
- He'd actually changed his clothes into like like tennis sneakers, like hot pants and like a skimpy top.
- And they forced her to wear a skimpy dress, which of course, and she's stuck wearing it throughout the battle, of course.
- No, normally you're in like these skimpy little crop tops and you just have to wear a full on button up with a dad vest.
- Let's talk about your your skimpy little little bra and let's talk about your crooked ass star.
Examples
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In a white T-shirt, a skimpy black skirt, and work boots, the girl ascends the stage.
Fiction book (1998) -
Underneath, she is wearing practically nothing: a skimpy black dress.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's a skimpy dress, Franny.
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Mrs. Claus would never wear anything this skimpy.
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She's dressed in a skimpy piece of bright pink lingerie.
Fiction book (1991) -
HONEY, I JUST COULDN'T LET YOU GO OUT THERE IN THAT SKIMPY LITTLE THING.
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You saw fifty-year-old women in skimpy sunsuits, sixty-year-old men in T-shirts and dungarees.
Fiction book (1999) -
A redhead poured into a skimpy miniskirt that might've been taken off the set of Laugh-In.
Fiction book (1999) -
The model walked down the runway in a skimpy dress that left little to the imagination.
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At the beach, she wore a skimpy bikini that highlighted her figure.
Synonyms
11
3.6
Clothing that is very short and covers little of the body
10
3.5
Clothes with a low neckline or back that show more skin
1
7.1
Clothing that shows more of the body than usual
Very short clothes that show much of the body
Antonyms
How Revealing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word skimpy also comes from skim and the related verb skimp, which carry the idea of giving only a little. So skimpy clothes 'cover only a small part' of the body and therefore seem very small or revealing.