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faintly

adverb as in softly

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It’s a tricky job, because ORCS are very faint and difficult to find.

Arecibo was more than an exquisitely sensitive ear tuned to pick up faint radio waves from deep space.

With such a huge dish to collect radio waves, Arecibo could see very faint objects and phenomena.

I would frequently feel faint after standing for only a few minutes at a time.

Most stars are too far and too faint to show up as anything but a point.

The system faintly evokes the charm of the Hogwarts houses—without a Sorting Hat, that is.

Says my wife, returning from the shower be-robed, towel-turbaned, and still smelling faintly of not-made-from-concentrate.

The facts are not faintly controversial for those who believe in reality: vaccination saves lives, families, and dollars.

The camera homes in on a young boy peering out the window, his face faintly visible through its steel security bars.

If you listened closely during the bleep, you could faintly hear Jacqueline Bissett still giving her speech.

"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.

There was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.

Presently the Hole-keeper stopped short and said, faintly, "It strikes me the sun is very hot here."

She reached out and took the cigarette from Mrs. Kaye's faintly resisting hand.

Winifred, indeed, in response to a question, said faintly that she thought she could keep going if she had a drink of milk.

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On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to faintly, such as: barely, comparatively, practically, rarely, seldom, and simply.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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