skimpilyadv.
/ˈskɪmpɪli/ In a skimpy manner or style.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adverb] > scantily or meagrely
feeblyc1290
scarcely1340
scantc1440
scantly1509
daintilya1513
barelya1535
thinly1537
leanly1580
meagrelya1586
starvedly1606
exile1654
scantily1774
skimpingly1853
skimpily1859
stintedly1863
barrenly1877
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adverb] > in a skimpy manner
scantily1841
skimpily1859
1859 W. H. Gregory Egypt I. 314 She would..have dressed herself more becomingly, and less skimpily.
1866 Contemp. Rev. 2 487 They are carelessly and ‘skimpily’ got up goods.
1887 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. iii She recrossed the skimpily furnished drawing-room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adv.1859- of a mornings
- of a mould
- of a muchness
- of a night
- of a person's bone
- of a person's bones
- of a person's cost
- of a person's costs
- of a person's gift
- of a person's grace
- of a person's knowledge
- of a person's mercy
- of a person's part
- of a person's retinue
- of a piece
- of a piece with
- of a plume
- of a rank
- of a rate
- of a ruck
- of a scantling
- of a side
- of a size
- of a sort
- of a specialty