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What does scantly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided.
  2. Barely; hardly.
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His room was dark, scantly lit by an oil lamp resting on the desk near his door.
Many are not aware that this song was scantly known during the lifetime of Bankim himself.
Stem unbranched-upper part scantly branched, with curved and glandular hairs almost to the bottom.
This activity was positively assessed by the participants as it introduced a relevant but scantly addressed issue at the conference.
A provincial strike, called by some dissidents on July 11th, was scantly observed, reflecting broad support for the peace process.
They have wonderful calamari, pale as dawn light, scantly breaded, quickly fried, and just as buoyant as a breeze.

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