scantly

as inhardly

Antonyms for scantly

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from scant + -ly (2). OED reports it "exceedingly common from the 15th to the middle of the 17th c.; in the 18th c. it had app. become obsolere; revived in literary use by Scott."

Example Sentences forscantly

I scantly wis—marry, methinks with the Court, at this present.

Come, Sir, I should scantly play the same trick on you twice.

You scantly looked, as methinks, for a visit of ours this even?

“That were scantly the mean, I take it,” quietly returned he.

“I scantly know, Jack,” answered he, shaking his white head.

“I have little patience with such doctrines, and scantly with such men,” said John.

Such a fright have I had this morrow, I may scantly hold my pen.

Albeit at the beginning it was against their wills, and scantly would they receive it.

Only it all seems to mean that I shall see you all but scantly and remotely.

Having built streets, of their old gravestones, they wander about scantly trying to 'look alive.'

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