scantly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scantly
Adverb
  • Meanwhile, Seraphina Harrigan (Mandeep Dhillon) — who barely escaped that same buzzing blade — is sitting in the back of a black SUV, her face still covered in her brother's blood.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 18 May 2025
  • And the reason this is elating to watch — in the way that a movie about the making of almost any other movie might not be — is that there’s barely any separation between the film Godard is making and what’s happening off camera.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2025
Adverb
  • Despite giving up scarcely any power, the Glazers banked around £70million from the flotation, 50 per cent of the proceeds.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • His preferred model instead invokes the putative decay of another mysterious aspect of cosmology, dark matter—thought to be a substance that gravitationally binds galaxies together but otherwise scarcely interacts with the rest of the universe at all.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The downtown side of the bridge is also minutely taller than the church side, leading to some overconfident drivers lodging themselves on the other end.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Finally, this sleeping pad also gets top marks for the adjustability, using the brand’s reliable flat-lock air valve that can be minutely adjusted for different inflation levels, and deflates in just a few seconds.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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