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Princeton's WordNet

  1. meagerly, sparingly, slenderly, meagrelyadverb

    to a meager degree or in a meager manner

    "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"

Wiktionary

  1. sparinglyadverb

    In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sparinglyadverb

    Etymology: from sparing.

    Give us leave freely to render what we have in charge;
    Or shall we sparingly shew you far off
    The dauphin’s meaning? William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    The borders whereon you plant fruit-trees should be large, and set with fine flowers; but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. Francis Bacon, Essays.

    Speech of touch towards others should be sparingly used; for discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man. Francis Bacon, Essays.

    High titles of honour were in the king’s minority sparingly granted, because dignity then waited on desert. John Hayward.

    Commend but sparingly whom thou do’st love;
    But less condemn whom thou do’st not approve. John Denham.

    The morality of a grave sentence, affected by Lucan, is more sparingly used by Virgil . Dryden.

    Christians are obliged to taste even the innocent pleasures of life but sparingly. Francis Atterbury.

    Our sacraments, which had been frequented with so much zeal, were approached more sparingly. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

ChatGPT

  1. sparingly

    Used or done in small, infrequent, or moderate amounts; not excessively or abundantly. The term implies restraint or caution in the amount, frequency, or extent of usage.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sparingly in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sparingly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sparingly in a Sentence

  1. E. M. Forster:

    Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

  2. Rashid Khan:

    We urge water users - domestic and industries - to continue using water sparingly.

  3. Fatima Cody Stanford:

    I try to get patients to deviate as much as they can or consume it sparingly.

  4. Jesta Kugarira:

    It will not take us far so we will have to eat sparingly.

  5. Proverb:

    Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

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