scantly
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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
But on Tuesday they learned that he was already 3,500 miles away, in Novaya Zemlya, a desolate, scantly populated group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, where he will serve at an air defense base.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
His earlier irritability was forgotten save when it obtruded itself reproachfully to remind him that he had been scantly civil to the girl by his side.
From The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna
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