Overview of adv scarcely
The adv scarcely has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (10) barely, hardly, just scarcely, scarce -- (by a small margin; "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)
2. hardly, scarcely -- (almost not "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator")
Overview of adv scarcely
The adv scarcely has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (10) barely, hardly, just scarcely, scarce -- (by a small margin; "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)
2. hardly, scarcely -- (almost not "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator")
scarcely definition
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