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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "He had scarcely finished, when the labourer arrived who had been sent for my ransom.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 188:",
"text": "It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1875 December 7, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant's Seventh State of the Union Address:",
"text": "In 1776 manufactories scarcely existed even in name in all this vast territory.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:",
"text": "Scarcely had she got fairly into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind her, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Disappearance of Count Collini”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "“Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée [sic] his formal congé.[…]”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1963, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Baltasar Gracián, translated by Joseph Jacobs, The Art of Worldly Wisdom:",
"text": "Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best—for that we must have recourse to art.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Hardly: only just; by a small margin."
],
"qualifier": "degree",
"raw_glosses": [
"(degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈskɛəsli/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈskɛɹsli/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "degree: by a small margin",
"word": "barely"
},
{
"word": "hardly"
},
{
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
"word": "barely"
},
{
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
"word": "just"
},
{
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
"word": "hardly"
},
{
"sense": "barely, almost not or not quite",
"word": "only just"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "edva li",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "едва ли"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "sotva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "tuskin"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "aligha"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "nemigen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "bajosan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "ní móide"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "ar éigean"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "dificilmente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jedvá",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "едва́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jedvá li",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "едва́ ли"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vrjád li",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "вря́д ли"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jéle",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "е́ле"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jéle-jéle",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "е́ле-е́ле"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "s trudóm",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "с трудо́м"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "probably not",
"word": "air èiginn"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎvsem ne",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "съвсем не"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "sotva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "tuskin"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "ní móide"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "ar éigean"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "haud"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "certainly not",
"word": "air èiginn"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "edva",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "едва"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "sotva"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "amper"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "nauwelijks"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "apenaŭ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "tuskin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "hädin tuskin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "à peine"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "guère"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "halisaiw",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mólis",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "μόλις"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "alig"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "ní móide"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "vix"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "haud"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "mal"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "air èiginn"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "apenas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "difícilmente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "knappt"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "a poenne"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "almost not, by a small margin",
"word": "a schipe"
}
],
"word": "scarcely"
}
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