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Definition of Scarcely
Scarcely

With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

Frugally; penuriously.

Related Definitions:
Barely, But, Difficulty, Frugally, Hardly, Just, Scantly, With


Scarcely Quotations

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
Georg Brandes

Scarcely Translations

scarcely in Afrikaans is skaars
scarcely in Dutch is kwalijk, amper, nauwelijks
scarcely in Finnish is tuskin
scarcely in French is concise
scarcely in German is knappe, knapp
scarcely in Hungarian is bajosan
scarcely in Italian is paggio, appena
scarcely in Latin is aegre egre (adv.), vix
scarcely in Portuguese is apenas, mal
scarcely in Spanish is apenas, escasamente
scarcely in Swedish is knappt, knappast


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