different between grudgingly vs scarcely
grudgingly
English
Etymology
grudging +? -ly
Adverb
grudgingly (comparative more grudgingly, superlative most grudgingly)
- In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire.
Synonyms
- petulantly, unwillingly
Translations
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scarcely
English
Etymology
From Middle English scarcely, scarsly, scarsely, scarsliche, scarseliche, equivalent to scarce +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk??sli/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sk??sli/
- Hyphenation: scarce?ly
Adverb
scarcely (comparative more scarcely, superlative most scarcely)
- (modal) Probably not.
- One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.
- (modal) Certainly not.
- One could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter.
- 1914, Saki, Dusk in Beasts and Super-Beasts,
- His clothes could scarcely be called shabby, at least they passed muster in the half-light, but one’s imagination could not have pictured the wearer embarking on the purchase of a half-crown box of chocolates or laying out ninepence on a carnation buttonhole.
- (degree) Almost not at all; by a small margin.
- He had scarcely finished, when the labourer arrived who had been sent for my ransom.
- 1875 December 7, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant's Seventh State of the Union Address,
- In 1776 manufactories scarcely existed even in name in all this vast territory.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy’s bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe.
- 1963, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes:
- But we shall take scarcely more than two years to reach it, while we should have needed almost as much time to arrive in the region of Proxima Centauris.
- 1993, Baltasar Gracián, Joseph Jacobs (translator), The Art of Worldly Wisdom,
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best—for that we must have recourse to art.
Usage notes
It is grammatically a negative word. It therefore collocates with ever rather than never.
- Compare We scarcely ever eat fish. with We almost never eat fish.
Synonyms
- (degree: by a small margin): barely, hardly
- (barely, almost not or not quite): barely, just, hardly, only just
Translations
scarcely From the web:
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- what scarcely perceptible
- what's scarcely in french
- scarcely what part of speech
- scarcely what does that mean
- what does scarcely mean in the bible
- what does scarcely
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