Definition of Scarcely

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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

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

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

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

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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