scantly
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the most important, though scantly reported, manifestation of this has been the emergence of a new group of retired officers called Flag Officers 4 America — "flag officers" meaning generals and admirals.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2021
“In choosing a serial murder case that was scantly covered at the time, Green takes us far from the terrain of fashionably notorious Netflix psychopaths.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
But its substance is scantly developed, its clear and simple premise dismayingly oversimplified.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
Cameron Folmar carries the 80-minute show on a scantly decorated stage; if “Santaland” is meant as theater’s break at the comedy club, it’s a thin start.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2017
She had na sailed a league but twa, Or scantly had she three, Till she met wi' a rude rover, Was sailing on the sea.
From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
