Thesaurus / scantily
FEEDBACK- partially
- badly
- deficiently
- incompetently
- incompletely
- ineffectively
- ineffectually
- inefficiently
- ineptly
- meagerly
- not enough
- partly
- perfunctorily
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How to use scantily in a sentence
It bears a truly desolate appearance, being nothing but ridges of bare white sand, scantily crowned with a few shrubby bushes.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGThe host served Gilbert scantily, as Therese was watching, took the same sized piece and passed the plate to his Xantippe.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMASThe children, which were in great numbers, looked healthy, but were very scantily clad.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYNotice that brown-faced, scantily clad boy, who keeps beckoning and shouting "Sahib."
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLDG. E. MITTONThe bothy was but scantily furnished, though it consisted of two rooms.
AULD LICHT IDYLLSJ. M. BARRIEThe Ebers Papyrus shows us that the specialties were by no means scantily developed.
EDUCATION: HOW OLD THE NEWJAMES J. WALSHThe poor boys were scantily fed, and otherwise miserably provided for.
YORKSHIRE ODDITIES, INCIDENTS AND STRANGE EVENTSS. BARING-GOULDShe appeared but scantily surprised to hear that there were not—it was a language of which one expected so little.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMESDetails are scantily given: some of the principal scenes of conflict cannot even be identified with any certainty.
BATTLES OF ENGLISH HISTORYH. B. (HEREFORD BROOKE) GEORGEAs the goblin said this a cloud rolled gradually away and disclosed a small and scantily furnished but neat apartment.
A BUDGET OF CHRISTMAS TALES BY CHARLES DICKENS AND OTHERSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SCANTILY
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.