scantily

== Anglais == === Étymologie === (Date à préciser) Dérivé de scanty, avec le suffixe -ly. === Adverbe === scantily \ˈskæn.tɪ.li\ invariable Chichement, éparsement, insuffisamment, maigrement, modestement, parcimonieusement, de façon incomplète. The world giveth to its friends, Any man will help his own friends. […] It gives its benefactions to its friends, and but very scantily even to them. — (Charles Spurgeon, sermon 247 (10 avril 1859), dans The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, volume 5, Delmarva Publications, 2015 → lire en ligne) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) In summer coated with short hairs; color broccoli-brown above, finely sprinkled with black, sparsely on the sides and thickly in a broad median dorsal area; ears scantily coated, hair brown, with scarcely perceptible hoary edges; eyelids bordered with black; feet scantily coated, the skin appearing between the hairs; tail plainly showing annuli above and below, and so scantily coated that it does not appear distinctly bicolored or slightly penciled at tip; underparts gray partly concealed by white tips to the hairs. — (Edgar Alexander Mearns, "On the mainland form of the eastern deermouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque)" (9 août 1901), dans Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington [Actes de la Société biologique de Washington], volume XIV, page 154. → lire en ligne) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) "[…] I declare the Rio Carnival open," said King Momo, the Carnival's symbol of overweight excess. With these words, the white-clad king kicked off five days of wild samba dancing that will culminate in dazzling parades of lavishly decorated floats and scores of scantily dressed women in the Sambadrome, the hallowed "temple of Samba", Sunday night and Monday night. — (AFP, "Rio carnival extravaganza kicks off", site web de France24, 18 février 2012 → lire en ligne) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) ==== Quasi-synonymes ==== sparsely sparingly parsimoniously ==== Dérivés ==== scantily-clad (« légèrement vêtu(e), en petite tenue ») ==== Apparentés étymologiques ==== scantiness === Prononciation === Sud de l’Angleterre : écouter « scantily [Prononciation ?] »