scantly

adverb

Definition of scantlynext
1
as in minimally

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2
as in scantily

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  1. barely
  2. scarcely
  3. minutely
Adverb
  • Ophelia barely registers; Gertrude gets less than two lines.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Yet in less than two years, that island has been whittled down by the sea to barely a dot — not much remains in the third photograph, dating to the end of 2024.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Definition of barely
Adverb
  • Coffers scarcely contained enough money to pay staff.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of scarcely
Adverb
  • How state argued before a federal appeals court The number of hate groups had minutely declined since 2021, but has been slowly rising in the years since.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 9 July 2024
  • The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of minutely
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scantly

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