scantly
Example Sentences
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Trump, who has scantly used the Meta-owned platforms, and refused to return to Twitter/X after Elon Musk restored his account access, is much more active on his own social media platform, Truth Social.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2024
The business model and LIV’s lofty ambitions, however far-fetched they might seem in this early stage, are scantly visible right now.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
“In choosing a serial murder case that was scantly covered at the time, Green takes us far from the terrain of fashionably notorious Netflix psychopaths.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
Wagner writes these scenes scantly, perhaps to avoid bogging the movie down in long dialogue but seemingly, even more crucially, to give the characters’ pasts an air of quasi-universality.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
His earlier irritability was forgotten save when it obtruded itself reproachfully to remind him that he had been scantly civil to the girl by his side.
From The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna
