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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Yet America’s professional soccer league is little esteemed at home and abroad.

— Chris Pope, Washington Post, 15 July 2026
That condition was little changed by marriage or the couple’s first child, born within a week of Mary Kay’s seventeenth birthday, in 1935, or their second, born the following year.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

Definition of little

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Salvador Perez hit a homer off Padres reliever Matt Waldron, a two-run shot that moved the Royals captain slightly closer to the club’s all-time record.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2026
However, it will be focused higher up in the atmosphere and just bring slightly hazy skies in some areas.

— Aleem Agha, ABC News, 18 July 2026

Definition of slightly

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In practice, many MSOs grew too fast through acquisition to ever build that platform, ending up with different equipment, different extraction methods, and different SOPs for nominally identical products across their networks.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
But the only album Sly Stone released in the last 40 years of his life, nominally a solo album, is otherwise disappointingly devoted to revamping his group’s old hits.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 7 July 2026

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