SCANTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scantily mean? 

• SCANTILY (adverb)
  The adverb SCANTILY has 1 sense:

1. in a skimpy manner

  Familiarity information: SCANTILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a skimpy manner

Synonyms:

scantily; skimpily

Context example:

scantily clad

Pertainym:

scanty ((of clothing) revealing the body)

 Context examples 

There was nothing to raise her spirits in the confined and scantily furnished chamber that she was to share with Susan.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is a scantily furnished room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her dress was of a lavender colour, and perfectly neat; but scantily made, as if she desired to be as little encumbered as possible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber; stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imagination represented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)