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scarcely
adverb
only a very short time before
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ˈskɛəsli
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adverb
only a very short time before
“we hardly knew them”
adverb
almost not
“he hardly ever goes fishing”
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we hardly knew them
had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
{'source': 'W.B.Yeats', 'text': 'would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave'}
he hardly ever goes fishing
he was scarce sixteen years old
they scarcely ever used the emergency generator
I can hardly hear what she is saying
she barely seemed to notice him
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