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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.
Stem unbranched-upper part scantly branched, with curved and glandular hairs almost to the bottom.
Many are not aware that this song was scantly known during the lifetime of Bankim himself.
The area is popular with the scantly clad sunbakers, usually perched at the southern end of the beach.
For another, the 24-year-old was, say it again, a brand new artist, scantly known in the US and with barely one full UK single to her name.
Only it all seems to mean that I shall see you all but scantly and remotely.

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