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scarcely any
adjective as in few
adjective as in several
Weak matches
- a few
- a lot
- any
- certain
- considerable
- definite
- different
- disparate
- distinct
- divers
- diverse
- handful
- hardly any
- indefinite
- individual
- infrequent
- manifold
- many
- not many
- numerous
- only a few
- particular
- personal
- plural
- proportionate
- quite a few
- rare
- respective
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- separate
- single
- small number
- some
- sparse
- special
- specific
- sundry
adverb as in slightly
Example Sentences
This is another example of what French writer Alexis de Tocqueville observed of the United States when he visited in the early 19th century: “Scarcely any political question arises … that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
It was de Tocqueville who famously argued, “Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
Scarcely any directors at all represented multiple marginalized groups.
There were scarcely any women of colour in gymnastics in the 1980s when Ms Moore was a young gymnast.
He concludes his remarks by saying that if America fails to have a true racial reckoning “there is scarcely any hope for the American dream, “because the people who are denied participation in it, by their very presence, will wreck it.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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