Слово "skimpy". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Growling, the cat sank his plump paws into the skimpy chevelure of the master of ceremonies and in two twists tore the head from the thick neck with a savage howl.

"Why is it," he asked, "that the furnishings are so skimpy in your establishment?"

to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,

Sizobryuhov was sitting on a skimpy little sofa of imitation mahogany, before a round table with a cloth on it.

She remembered with a faint shudder the bare and empty parlour of the missionary's bungalow; the rattan chairs and the kitchen table with its cotton cloth, the stained shelves with all those cheap editions of novels, and the little skimpy red curtains that had such a dusty look.