SCANTILY Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

scantily

adverb

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as in meagerly

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Recent Examples of scantily In a series of photos and videos released Wednesday, Sweeney can be seen naked or scantily clad, holding American footballs, a tennis racket or a baseball bat. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 The actress left little to the imagination in a provocative new campaign for Novig, posing nude or scantily clad alongside an array of sports equipment as the company promoted its sports-only approach. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026 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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His dialogue in particular serves as a distinctive through line, with pages of repartee in an off-kilter, slightly formal register flowing through all of his novels.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
During heat treatment, nanoscale regions with slightly different atomic spacing begin to precipitate within the alloy.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of slightly

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The key test was performed independently on two nominally identical devices, one at EPFL and one at the Weizmann Institute, using separate experimental setups.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Should that phase of flight execute nominally, however, SpaceX has slated the half-hour-long Starlink deployment procedure to begin about 10 minutes later.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026

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