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How to use scantily in a sentence

10 example sentences · adverb

Scantily means sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner. Example: “It is a scantily furnished room.”

Examples of scantily by meaning

adverbSparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner.

  • It is a scantily furnished room.1904 July, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure...
  • American interest is provided by former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, and the scantily clad Traci Bingham, formerly of “Baywatch.”2006 January 17, Melissa Block, “Analysis: British Parliamentarian among reality TV show cast”, in NPR_ATC

More sentences with scantily

  • With sales slipping, a fast-food chain notorious for featuring scantily clad women has decided on a food-centric message.2019 November 13, Tiffany Hsu, “Carl's Jr.'s Marketing Plan: Pitch Burgers, Not Sex”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry decide on
  • You get to travel the world, perform for thousands of scantily clad ravers, and earn a stack of money.2005 October 10, Theunis Bates, “iPod is a DJ”, in Time. From the entry raver
  • When will they introduce a scantily clad, ultrabuff, humpa-hunka burn'n all-man studflesh to give us feigellas a reason to watch?1999 September 24, cor...@frogger.telerama.com, “Our Commodification”, in soc.motss (Usenet). From the entry feygele
  • Sin is a word which occurs scantily in his vocabulary.1964, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Dickens in His Time, page 178. From the entry in someone's vocabulary
  • A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry scantily clad
  • In it four images of a stunningly beautiful, scantily clad blonde are set against a wallpaperlike expanse of the splintery images of H.2008 February 15, Roberta Smith, “Rounding Up the Usual Suspects”, in New York Times. From the entry wallpaperlike
  • For many, ’ardkore was a depressing manifestation of rave culture's nihilistic escapism, scantily garbed in the gladrags of a vague and poorly grounded idealism.1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry gladrags
  • So far from friendship being an institution whose value is recognised and understood, it is at best scantily acknowledged, and is often actually discountenanced and misunderstood.1908, Edward Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Intermediate Sex, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1921, page 90. From the entry discountenance

Meaning of scantily

  1. adverb Sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner.

Full definition of scantily

Questions about scantily in a sentence

How do you use scantily in a sentence?
Scantily is used as an adverb. For example: “It is a scantily furnished room.”
What is a short sentence with scantily?
“It is a scantily furnished room.”
What does scantily mean?
Scantily means sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner.

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