{s} lacking, having an inadequate supply; meager, barely sufficient, just enough; limited, deficient
lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
If someone is wearing scanty clothing, he or she is wearing clothes which are sexually revealing. a model in scanty clothing. + scantily scanti·ly a troupe of scantily-clad dancers
You describe something as scanty when there is less of it than you think there should be. So far, what scanty evidence we have points to two suspects