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scantly
adverb as in hardly
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
- almost inconceivably
- almost not
- by a hair
- by no means
- detectably
- faintly
- gradually
- imperceptibly
- infrequently
- little
- no more than
- no way
- not a bit
- not at all
- not by much
- not likely
- not markedly
- not measurably
- not much
- not notably
- not noticeably
- not often
- not quite
- once in a blue moon
- only
- only just
- perceptibly
- pretty near
- slightly
- sparsely
- sporadically
- with trouble
Example Sentences
All three tech giants denied they harbor any political biases, and GOP lawmakers provided scant evidence for their claims.
He’s running against charismatic former Army Ranger John James, a Republican businessman whose environmental platform is scant.
That’s because scant rainfall and wide, well-marked streets ease the engineering of split-second computer vision systems considerably.
While Misra was scant on the details of the SPAC itself, including how much the blank check company was seeking to raise, he did openly state his thinking on raising one.
With only two other companies that have gone public through a direct listing, data is scant on how businesses fare following the process—so Asana and Palantir will be heavily watched.
Mr. Mitchett was none the less scantly diverted from his estimate of the occasion Mrs. Brookenham had just named to him.
He remembered the effect this adviser had produced on Julia—an effect that scantly ministered to the idea of another meeting.
The children were barefoot, bare headed and scantly dressed, and it seemed awfully dirty about the doors of the shanties.
He gnawed at the scantly-fleshed ribs of the first rabbit, savoring the raw meaty smell and flavor.
The contents of it, as of all Fielding's work in this kind, include certain things for which the moderns are scantly grateful.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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