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
But on Tuesday they learned that he was already 3,500 miles away, in Novaya Zemlya, a desolate, scantly populated group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, where he will serve at an air defense base.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
But its substance is scantly developed, its clear and simple premise dismayingly oversimplified.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 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
Here is all they have—Trojans, Arcadian peers, And that Etruscan Turnus' bane, the fateful band of spears: Why, if we meet, each second man shall scantly find a foe.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
