SCANTILY Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

scantily

adverb

Definition of scantily

as in meagerly

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Recent Examples of scantily More state complaints and a lawsuit have been filed in the last two weeks against a Boca Raton psychiatrist accused of asking female patients to dress scantily and show their breasts during video appointments. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026 The job post comes from Joi, which hosts a large catalog of online chatbots, many of them scantily clad women. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 May 2026

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Limón would like to see the state stop subsidizing corporations who pay so meagerly that their employees qualify for Medi-Cal.

— Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.

— Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025

Definition of meagerly

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Futures were little changed early Thursday, a sign traders are still deciding whether the sell-off was a one-day scare or the start of a real showdown between the Treasury and the bond market.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
Ultimately, the Community Shield may tell us very little about who will lift the Premier League trophy next May.

— Dean Jones, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of little

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The boy was spotted sitting on his own at a hut about 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea level – slightly more than halfway up the country’s tallest mountain – by a worker on Thursday, according to CNN’s affiliate TV Asahi.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
The kitchen itself, though, feels fairly unused—one tap wasn’t working, the cutlery was slightly rusty, and the whole setup had a ramshackle quality.

— Megan Rose Murray, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of slightly

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Before its founding, seven agencies nominally held responsibility for various elements of consumer protection, but none had it as a primary mission.

— Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Moreover, most Americans maintained the outdated notion that oligarchies couldn’t exist in nations that were at least nominally democratic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026

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