Sentence examples for scantily from inspiring English sources

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scantily

adverb

In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

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It's the kind of deal you often see advertised on late-night German niche TV by way of scantily clad ladies.

"He most definitely has a type", the Tele said next to a photo of a scantily clad woman.

I am told that some Muslims are offended by scantily clad models that grace the side of buses.

A YouTube video sees DJ Fenix on stage blaring out his beats, surrounded by strobe lighting and scantily clad singers – a new look for a stage which has previously hosted the Bolshoi Ballet and Stravinsky.

But, in a country notorious for the scantily clad showgirls who came to populate television screens during Silvio Berlusconi's era of huge political and media power, the symbolic nature of the move was clear.

The four white male band members are sitting, blankly staring at two scantily clad black women, with heavy camera focus on their backsides.

The stars were there, and scantily clad dancers celebrated boundaries and wickets.

In a study of 2,600 popular keywords using the five leading search engines by McAfee, an online security firm, searching for this term (presumably, the sites returned purported to be of scantily clad starlets) and clicking on a link presented a three-in-five chance of becoming infected.

Her lawyer argued that wearing a burkini did not entirely meet her religious scruples: it would make her feel embarrassed, and she would still have to mingle with scantily clad boys.

Prostitution is, after all, legal here.The Colombian government had kept mum about the scandal until Spirit Airlines, an American low-cost carrier, launched an ad offering flights to Cartagena in which a Secret Service type wearing an earpiece and dark glasses pressed a finger to his lips, as the words "More bang for your buck" flash on the screen to reveal scantily clad women.

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Two leading contenders the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, and Alassane Ouattara, a former IMF man have held lavish, high-tech conventions where dancers, praise-singers and scantily-clad hostesses have been consorting with the politicians and their American-style PowerPoint presentations.

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