faintly

adverb

faint·​ly

1

: in a faint manner

for a few seconds he faintly struggled with the man

—Charles Dickens

his senses alive so faintly as to be useless

—Nigel Dennis

2

: to a faint degree : slightly, indistinctly

showing faintly at the right of the picture

—G. R. Stewart

faintly blue hills

—Hugh Walpole

rumors … which weren't even faintly true

—Scott Fitzgerald

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