Modifies a noun

• bikini: This naughty ironing board cover features model Jordan, wearing a very skimpy red bikini.

• outfits: The reason many female singers prance around in skimpy outfits is to distract the audience from the fact they have no musical talent.

• outfit: Leon slips into a variety of skimpy outfits to reveal her extremely ample figure more than once.

• costume: I sat back while she danced on stage in skimpy costumes that were enough to make any man blush.

• T-shirt: They are often young women, dressed not in overalls but tight jodhpurs and skimpy t-shirts.

• clothes: Plus, surely nobody wanted to see Lionel Blair dressed in his teenage daughter's skimpy clothes?

Modifying Another Word

• so: Her costume's so skimpy her breast pops out when the werewolf pulls the cross from her neck.

• very: The extras on these films are very, very, very skimpy.

• too: Your mom recently said your stage outfits were getting too skimpy; are you going to tone them down?

• rather: Choosing a better edition of " The Art of War " , rather than this rather skimpy edition, will be money well spent.

• quite: A relatively small proportion of web users are using IE5 and even its support for XML is quite skimpy.

Used with adjective complement

• give: These girls are given skimpy, brightly-colored outfits to wear, which are always emblazoned with the name and/or logo of the sponsoring company.