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comparative more scantly, superlative most scantly
In a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided. examples
Barely; hardly; scarcely. quotations examples
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], page 16