scantly [
'skæntli]
ad. 缺乏地, 不足地, 仅仅
Scantly \Scant"ly\, adv.
1. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly;
penuriously. --Dryden.
2. Scarcely; hardly; barely.
Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread
Upon that town. --Fairfax.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
--Tennyson.
- In Montana, a proposed constitutional amendment would abolish all state income, property and sales taxes and licensing fees, replacing them with a scantly defined "transaction charge" of 1 percent on all financial dealings.