Synonyms Test 102

3. slanderous, libelous, calumnious, calumniatory, traducent, false, untrue, maliciously false or untrue, misrepresentative, aspersive, imputative, insinuating, gossiping; abusive, thersitical, hurtful, scurrilous, Archaic. scurrile, injurious, contumelious, insulting, backbiting; defiling, sullying, soiling, staining, smearing, smirching, tainting, tarnishing, blemishing, smudging, stigmatizing; defamatory, denigrating, vilifying, vilipenditory. scanty, adj. 1. scant, skimpy, scrimpy, meager, exiguous, Scot. and North Eng. jimp; meanly small, beggarly, paltry, poor, piddling, Inf. measly, mere; slight, slender, lean, thin, narrow, puny, stunted; very little, insufficient, inadequate, short, shy; insubstantial, modest, light; nominal, minute, negligible, Inf. barely there.
2. sparse, scattered, thinly distributed, few and far between; sporadic, infrequent, spotty, irregular, intermittent. scapegoat, n. victim, butt, Inf. the one on the receiving end, object, target, Chiefly Brit. Aunt Sally, Inf. goat; dupe, gull, cat's paw, U.S. SI. fall guy, SI. patsy, Inf. sucker; laughingstock, gazingstock, byword. scapegrace, n. scamp, Inf. scalawag, rascal, rogue, rapscallion, scaramouche. See scamp. scar, n. 1. pock, pockmark, Med. cicatrix, blemish, old wound, spot; patch, blotch, discoloration, birthmark, nevus; defect, fault, defacement, disfigurement, flaw, cut, crack, scratch; stain, blot, speck, blur, smudge, smirch, smutch, taint; bruise, SI. hickey; brand.
2. trauma, injury, damage; upset, shock, blow, ordeal. -v. 3. blemish, mark, brand; impair, deface, disfigure, mar, scratch, cut, crack; spot, speckle, stain, blotch, discolor; sully, tarnish, taint.
4. upset, shock, Psychiatry, traumatize, hurt, injure, damage. scarce, adj. 1. scant, scanty, exiguous, unplentiful, in short supply, at a premium, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, Inf. scarcer than hen's teeth; meager, skimpy, paltry, too little, not enough, too little, too late; short, low, tight, lean, not abundant; insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, needful.
2. rare, almost unheard-of, infrequent, occasional, few and far between, seldom seen, seldom met with; uncommon, unusual, unwonted, unique; singular, exceptional, out of the ordinary, noteworthy, notable, distinctive, atypical. scarcely, adv. 1. barely, hardly, Dial, scantly, only just, just, with difficulty, not easily; by a narrow margin, Inf. by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a little bit, by an inch; faintly, dimly, slightly, not quite.
2. probably not, definitely not, certainly not, on no account, on no occasion; ill, little, by no means, noway, nowise, in no way, not at all, not in the least, not a bit. scarcity, n. 1. lack, dearth, want, need, crying need; insufficiency, inadequacy, deprivation, deficiency; paucity, sparseness, sparsity, scantiness; exiguity, exiguousness, slenderness, thinness, leanness, meagerness, shortage, small number, paltriness; poverty, poorness, indigence, destitution; famine, drought.
2. infrequency, seldomness, rarity, rareness, uncommonness, unusualness, uniqueness. scare, v. 1. frighten, fright, affright, Archaic, affray, alarm, startle, shock; terrify, daunt, strike terror into, terrorize, appall, horrify, dismay; put the fear of God into, intimidate, awe, SI. psych out, cow, threaten, menace; SI. scare the bejeesus out of, SI. scare the pants off, SI. scare the living daylights out of, SI. scare out of one's wits, curl one's hair, make one's hair stand on end, make one's flesh crawl, make one's blood run cold; scare stiff, start, panic, break out in a cold sweat.

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