scantly

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Perhaps the most important, though scantly reported, manifestation of this has been the emergence of a new group of retired officers called Flag Officers 4 America — "flag officers" meaning generals and admirals.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2021

“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

Cameron Folmar carries the 80-minute show on a scantly decorated stage; if “Santaland” is meant as theater’s break at the comedy club, it’s a thin start.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2017

Methinks He scantly gave hot words to Peter, whether the Emperor Tiberius Caesar should have reigned or no.”

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah