without force or sincere effort; "smiled thinly"
Used in a Sentence
thinly
How to use thinly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for thinly.
Editorial note
I think the thing you might be witnessing here is what earthlings call "sarcasm," or maybe "a thinly veiled threat".
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Quick take
without force or sincere effort; "smiled thinly"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of thinly gathered in one view.
without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin"
in a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for thinly.
adverb
without force or sincere effort; "smiled thinly"
adverb
without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin"
See also: thin
adverb
in a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"
See also: lightly
adverb
in a widely distributed manner; "thinly overgrown mountainside"
Example sentences
I think the thing you might be witnessing here is what earthlings call "sarcasm," or maybe "a thinly veiled threat".
This is just thinly disguised xenophobia and the FT should be ashamed to print it.
Besides your thinly-veiled insults, how do we know you know what you're talking about any more than tptacek?
You don't get to be TSA flak by writing thinly-veiled threats that are easily retrieved through public records requests.
The talk isn't a thinly veiled vendor pitch for the presenter's consultancy or company.
It had this awkward tone of thinly veiled innuendo, without really saying anything.
I'd like to see the actual studies she's referencing so I can say more than just "this is thinly veiled propaganda.
So people pattern match on his argument, see the word "accent", and argue on the basis of his comment being thinly veiled xenophobia.
Most of IBM's crap is a thinly veiled customisation on top of Eclipse, it makes me laugh thinking about how that will translate to an iOS device.
Of course there was no acknowledgement whatsoever by NYT that they'd either been had or that they participated in a thinly-veiled PR strategy.
This is nothing more than a thinly-disguised allegory about piracy in the music industry.
Some people simply have very, very thin skin and the judgment of behavior -- the social expectations -- is absolutely a thinly-veiled tactic of control.
My sense is that many of the complaints about a "skills shortage" are in fact thinly veiled boasts about the selectivity and eliteness of the complainant and his organization.
In part that's because you have many good but very lightly maintained libraries that stick around forever, so people prefer if they stay working when nobody touches them, rather than bitrotting and needing constant updating by thinly stretched maintainers.
They're things like* technical debt* familiarity with the codebase and problem domain* interruptions, distractions, multi-tasking and other office environment issues* choice of language - but this is a distant fourth compared to other the other threeOn top of all this, the Economist article is a thinly-veiled press release for tenXer, which is itself nothing more than an exercise in testerone-fueled egotism.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use thinly in a sentence?
I think the thing you might be witnessing here is what earthlings call "sarcasm," or maybe "a thinly veiled threat".
What does thinly mean?
without force or sincere effort; "smiled thinly"
What part of speech is thinly?
thinly is commonly used as adverb.