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[ UK /ɛɡzˈɪɡjuːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely scanty
    an exiguous budget

How To Use exiguous In A Sentence

  • He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England. Daredevil
  • If Lillian's dessert plate was festooned with candied violets, mine would have an exiguous broken petal or two. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
  • The next step was to take the plug off the flex of the pump, and thread it through the exiguous drainage hole.
  • I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy. Quakers in Spain
  • Looking at them pegged on the line they look somewhat exiguous in nature.
  • So the charge made for the accommodation during her lifetime was the nominal charge referable to her exiguous state retirement pension.
  • Even the clouds glimpsed in crevices between buildings above Wall Street are sliced into exiguous triangles.
  • A lot of the fun of reading these papers is seeing how an exiguous collection of commitments plays out in so many different domains.
  • It has a downtown so exiguous that a pedestrian outside its biggest office building at 9 on a weekday morning is a phenomenon as singular as a cow in Times Square. Bye-Bye, Suburban Dream
  • an exiguous budget
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