Synonym: barely, hardly, just, scarce. Similar words: parcel, scare, scared, scary, discard, carcinomas, cell, cancel. Meaning: ['skerslɪ /-keəs-] adv. 1. by a small margin 2. almost not.
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181. Yet we can scarcely doubt that, in its practical effect, the Council of 1102 was a complete failure.
182. It was still not yet five o'clock, and the trees themselves were scarcely distinguishable in the semidarkness.
183. Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Virginia Woolf
184. The five million crimes recorded in Britain last year suggest serious social disorder, but they scarcely figured in the election.
185. Yet starting a daily paper anywhere other than in a few large cities is scarcely an attractive investment.
186. I had explained myself, as I always did, but I could scarcely explain myself away.
187. They were scarcely two hundred yards distant; yet such was the gloom that they could not be clearly distinguished.
188. The sky above them was beginning to turn a brightish green, scarcely blue at all any more.
189. He fairly sprinted up the stairs, and scarcely paused at the top although clearly short of breath.
190. MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts.
191. The film was so compelling I could scarcely take my eyes off the screen for a second.
192. Scarcely surprisingly, he became one of the figureheads of the revolution of 1820.
193. Stanyer sets a high standard,(sentencedict.com) but the response from practitioners was scarcely more enthusiastic.
194. About 1629, scarcely a quarter-century after the first accounts of it, the cahow disappeared entirely.
195. Making an extraordinary number of handling errors and under-using the speed in their backs, Widnes were scarcely in the hunt.
196. Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political.
197. The environmental contradictions implicit in all this activity scarcely occurred to anyone, of course.
198. That man was scarcely a heroic figure, however genial and powerful in manpower, but never ambitious to lead.
199. A good lad but as they say, a walk through the ocean of his soul would scarcely get your feet wet.
200. What teaching quality might look like in drama, physical education, music and art, for instance, scarcely gets a mention.
201. But she was being absurd, she scarcely knew this man and what was it to her who he was betrothed to?
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202. At dinner parties, people were so busy chewing there was scarcely time for conversation.
203. Conversely, the smallest market towns were scarcely distinguishable from populous villages.
204. He was scarcely the first foreman to come along intent on securing efficiencies; that was always part of the job.
205. Hume could scarcely suffer the fate of Andrew Lang, and be hailed as a new defender of the faith.
206. It also became a very tedious place, since you can scarcely blow your nose there without going through a security check.
207. Hence, a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past.
208. He had scarcely had time to draw the curtains when there was a small, familiar tap at the door.
209. Annotated, logged and indexed, his book scarcely illuminated Belushi's demons, or the system that supposedly destroyed him.
210. It scarcely endorses such behavior to note that it is an evergreen, seemingly eternal.