sparsely
advEtymology From sparse + -ly.
1
In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.
- a sparsely populated region
- Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709: