Sentence examples for scarcely true from inspiring English sources

But that is scarcely true today.

The lovers, who played unmasked, were scarcely true commedia dell'arte characters their popularity depending on looks, grace, and fluency in an eloquent Tuscan dialect.

Though it is scarcely true that Charlemagne's accession to the empire was simply a consequence of this expansion, his outstanding position was evidently a precondition of his elevation to the imperial throne.

Based on a con artist's scarcely believable true story, the film pinballs through Russell's life as a married policeman in Georgia, then a flamboyant gay confidence trickster in Florida, then a recidivist who keeps breaking out of jail by pretending to be a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant or a judge.

As regards interventions relating to detection and diagnosis (Table  2), the use of radiographs to screen new employees and those attending routine medical examinations (current practice) and Xpert MTB/RIF to confirm suspected tuberculosis (option 1) was predicted to scarcely affect true tuberculosis incidence, after reducing initial loss to follow-up and treatment delay.

True, scarcely any role here is played seriously.

SEX -- Cheap, instant and frequent, but clothed, off-camera (after some salacious preliminaries, that is) and ducked in true, scarcely veiled PG-13 fashion.

For decades they have hung in the homes of art lovers across northern England, their true value scarcely even guessed at by their owners.

Wroe follows Polydore Vergil and Francis Bacon in suggesting that by this stage he scarcely knew what was true, and that "what he feigned he believed".

Russia, it's true, is scarcely an adversary like Iran or North Korea, and it's not fair to say that President Bush refused to engage with it.

True salsify, also called yellow salsify, belongs to Tragopogon dubius, a different genus altogether, and despite a similarity in appearance and flavor, the two are scarcely acquainted, let alone true relatives.