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Princeton's WordNet
thinlyadverb
without force or sincere effort
"smiled thinly"
thinly, thinadverb
without viscosity
"the blood was flowing thin"
thinly, lightlyadverb
in a small quantity or extent
"spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"
thinlyadverb
in a widely distributed manner
"thinly overgrown mountainside"
Wiktionary
thinlyadverb
In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Thinlyadverb
Not thickly; not closely; not densely; not numerously.
Etymology: from thin.
It is commonly opinioned, that the earth was thinly inhabited before the flood. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. vi.
Thinlynoun
Etymology: from thin.
It is opinioned, that the earth was thinly inhabited before the flood. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
Our walls are thinly mann’d; our best men slain:
The rest, an heartless number, spent with watching. Dryd.
ChatGPT
thinly
Thinly refers to something that is in a thin or slim state, manner, or form. It generally indicates a small or slight amount or degree. This term can be applied to objects, layers, spreads or even abstract concepts such as population density. For instance, sliced thinly, spread thinly, thinly populated, and so on.
Webster Dictionary
Thinlyadjective
in a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of thinly in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of thinly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of thinly in a Sentence
Given that CLO managers are typically thinly capitalized, it is hard to envision that many small managers will have access to the long-term capital that risk-retention rules would require, unlike the last CLO manager consolidation cycle that followed the financial crisis, we believe this time around the consolidation economics are not as compelling given a combination of smaller post-crisis CLO management fees and shorter reinvestment periods.
Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.
It's so thinly stretched, there's arguably no organization on earth that could cover all those (topics) at sufficient depth to be authoritative.
Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.
In an interview with NBC News, President (Donald) Trump admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because of his investigation of the Trump campaign's Russian connections, that is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law.
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