scantily

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Guests of this Coffin Creek attraction were carted along from one breached containment scenario to the next, with roving monsters periodically surprising them in the darkness between the scantily lighted vignettes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

There were discussions last summer during the anti-racism protests about how police officers were very scantily masking.

From Slate • May 6, 2021

“People of color were often scantily clothed, people of color were usually not seen in cities, people of color were not often surrounded by technologies of automobiles, airplanes or trains or factories,” he said.

From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2018

Others counter that Lohfink – a German media personality known for her scantily clad photos – is being unfairly treated specifically because of her free-spirited public persona.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2016

His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker