thinly

Adverb

thinly (comparative more thinly, superlative most thinly)

1. In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.
   • The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.1957 August, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574
   • Brüno was a case of diminishing returns, intermittently amusing but not nearly as bracing or funny as Borat—it didn’t help that Brüno was the most thinly conceived of all his Da Ali G Show characters—and the lead-up to Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator, made it look like he’d boxed himself...2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012
2. Barely; hardly; with little attempt to conceal.
   • a thinly-veiled attack on my integrity
   • a thinly disguised attempt at sabotage