(n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
(n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The massive amount of catalogue being streamed guarantees that they get the massive slice of the pie (that $500 million), and the smaller producers and labels get pittance for their comparatively few streams.
(2) On top of that, given the pittance of offshore projects in the works in the United States, bringing the ships in from abroad can be cost-prohibitive.
(3) And there I was, week after week, paid a pittance to jeer at the Smith regime's imbecilities.
(4) The players' revolt which split tennis asunder, shrivelled 1973's Wimbledon championships to a half-baked botch and kick-started a dramatic overturn in the century-long balance of power between the administrators and administered of any major worldwide sport, was triggered because a temperamental and reasonably good Yugoslavian player, Nikki Pilic, decided to play a well-paid doubles tournament in Montreal instead of (for a pittance) a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand.
(5) The £900,000 that the club paid to the Belgian side Beerschot last year looks a pittance for a defender-cum-midfielder with awesome power and influence.
(6) Instead, they employ landless day labourers for a pittance.
(7) I hope that they will point out to the treasury that for much less than one thousandth part of total government expenditure, they create not just well-being but jobs; that for the pittance saved by cutting a few percentage points from our budget, the damage caused would be disproportionately savage.
(8) As the war began and Nazi racial policies became ever more explicit, more modern and pre-modern works were seized or bought for a pittance from Jewish owners.
(9) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(10) Art was stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell under duress during the Third Reich.
(11) I'm earning a pittance now but we've still got more money each month – for holidays and things.
(12) The money Sir Christopher Kelly wants political parties to get would be a pittance, nationally speaking, and it could save us so much.
(13) They could set up camps outside major cities – preferably to the east of London, where the air is stinkier – but close enough for the workers to commute to and from their jobs, or, if they're indolent scroungers, to today's workhouses AKA supermarkets such as Poundland, where they can work for their pittance.
(14) Relinquishing tax-exempt status would be a pittance for Fifa, which r ecently reported reserves of $1.4bn .
(15) Those with no skills but willing to break their backs underground get a pittance; those who won a lottery of life get paid millions to stay above the ground.
(16) "The usual film model is that the distributor pays the producer a pittance called an advance - and for that takes all rights to the film.
(17) shupiwe An injera worth supporting Little Addis Cafe in the Maboneng Precinct is a delightful little hole-in the-wall, which serves a tasty injera -with-all-the-extras for a pittance.
(18) They often have no changing rooms, no hot water, nowhere to make a cup of tea and they are doing it for a pittance.
(19) the populace of which saw very little benefit of its resources being sold for pittance to us.
(20) Musicians might, for now, challenge the major labels and get a fairer deal than 15% of a pittance, but it seems to me that the whole model is unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work of any kind.
Scanty
Definition:
(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(3) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(4) At necropsy, a heart with normal dimensions was found with scanty small cicatrices in the myocardium, probably resulting of past myocarditis.
(5) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(6) Tumours harvested after 3 weeks growth in donors, became cystic and had a scanty arterial supply.In both groups there was no portal circulation to the tumours' deposits.It is suggested that prior to intra-arterial treatment of cancer in the liver, the morphology of the tumour should be assessed.
(7) Unfortunately, owing to the scanty description of the work task, the exposure could be analysed only by job title.
(8) The three workers had scanty clinical symptoms; however, their chest x-ray films revealed disseminated nodulations throughout both pulmonary fields.
(9) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
(10) However, B cells (B-1), NK cells (Leu-7 and Leu-11), complement proteins and receptor (C4 and C3d receptor), and neutrophils (chloroacetate esterase) were scanty or absent in these foci.
(11) They possess numerous mitochondria with lamellar and tubular cristae, abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum, lipofuscin bodies and scanty lipid.
(12) The results support the hypotheses implicit in the scanty literature available that the frequency and effects of torture in women differ from those found in men.
(13) Although articles on studies of organized home care programs are numerous, reports of long-term effectiveness of these programs are scanty.
(14) The biopsy specimens in the remaining 254 cases continued scanty detectable IgA (discontinuous pattern) or none.
(15) Data on colonic intraluminal pressures are scanty, but those that exist seem to indicate that the addition of bran to the diet results in a decrease in overall colonic pressures.
(16) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(17) These were supplemented by interactions with medical personnel, as well as a review of the scanty literature (geriatrics is not a recognized medical specialty in the Soviet Union).
(18) The discrepancy between the relatively scanty amount of statistically reliable data on the one hand and the complexity of the manifestation of death by hanging on the other hand proved to be the main problem.
(19) The white pulp was scanty of lymphocytes and decreased in a unit area but it was increased in the whole spleen.
(20) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of a thyroid nodule in a patient with longstanding histiocytosis X produced a scanty amount of colloid, a moderately dense mixed inflammatory infiltrate and numerous small papillary fragments lined by cuboidal-to-columnar cells.