scantly
advUS, UK /ˈskæntli/
Etymology From scant + -ly.
1
In a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided.
- He scantly filled the bag, increasing his profits but getting dissatisified customers.
2
Barely; hardly; scarcely.
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16: