Thinly used in a sentence

Thinly in a sentence as an adverb

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 **** 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.