scarcely

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God, it was quiet then, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, Which half?

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only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scarcely gathered in one view.

adverb

almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for scarcely.

adverb

almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

Example sentences

God, it was quiet then, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, Which half?

I just read this whole story, and I can scarcely comprehend it's real.

You should be able to repeat and automate tasks and scarcely think about it.

That would have doomed half of them to their death.> God, it was quiet then, and one could scarcely hear the small voice ask, Which half?'Dr.

It's now scarcely possible to make a proper living and most of the old-timers are shooting commercial work or weddings.

Happy to show me the new TRS-80, and though my parents wouldn't pay for one, he scarcely complained as I went back to use it every day for more than a year.

You hit the frontpage for every version, which would be a very nice publicity boost even for scarcely known applications.

And they are working on a fully reusable launch vehicle from the 1st stage up through the crew capsule, which would revolutionize manned spaceflight in a way that we can scarcely imagine today.

This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.

Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner.

I was only scarcely aware of LayerVault previously with no specific opinion and now after hearing the claims and seeing the supposed "proof" I have a negative opinion.

We stand on the precipice of a revolution in liquid-sipping robot technology; our children will scarcely believe the languid speed of their parents' liquid-sipping robots.

Thankfully from what I have seen sqlite is maintained with that old-school style of library development, the one you scarcely see these days, and don't hear much about on HN: the one where "thou shalt not break existing code" has some weight.

Why not leave it up to the informed motorist to figure out whether the curb is painted red for a safety reason or merely because the homeowner is a jackass?Trying to enforce one's will over public property and public behavior with misleading, official-looking signs is scarcely any better than impersonating a police officer for the same effect--it's just a matter of degree.