Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a thin manner; with little thickness or depth; sparsely; slightly; not substantially.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without viscosity
  • adverb in a widely distributed manner
  • adverb without force or sincere effort
  • adverb in a small quantity or extent

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Examples

  • They are heavy, indeed, but that is OK: Fruitcake looks best in thinly sliced cross sections.

    Christmas fruitcake: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • They are heavy, indeed, but that is OK: Fruitcake looks best in thinly sliced cross sections.

    2009 December | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • It lost me by resting its plot on stereotypes and drowning its credibility in thinly veiled references to contemporary incidents and issues.

    “Resurrecting the Champ” is more than meets the trailer » Scene-Stealers 2007

  • A couple of mine weren't entirely ripe and I ended up cutting the skin thinly away with a sharp knife to avoiud having to gouge the tender flesh as I tried to prise away the skin.

    Peachy 2005

  • The last popular favorite is 'Orpheus C. Kerr' -- a name thinly disguising that of Office Seeker, and which is not indeed too well chosen, since in the volume before us little or nothing relative to the very suggestive subject of office-seeking, on the part of the author at least, is to be found.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • I very shortly decided that while they may be suitable for countries where little traveling is done, they would be thoroughly useless in thinly populated countries where people think less of traveling 3,000 miles than they do about their dinner.

    Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890

  • However, running second behind the Likud Party's Benjamin Netanyahu and with her male rivals attempting to undercut her credibility, using language some describe as thinly veiled chauvinism, Livni has pulled out the gender card, possibly in realization of the potential strength of women voters.

    Articles 2009

  • Environmentalists have balked at parts of the Everglades restoration, which some call a thinly veiled attempt to make sure South Florida has enough freshwater to drink.

    Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • I think this may already be happening; outside of a few blockbuster authors who are well-established, or who have passed the torch (and franchise dollars) to younger authors, I’m not seeing nearly as many fantasies in thinly-veiled Dark Ages settings as I did growing up in the Seventies and Eighties.

    Fantasy 2035 « 2009

  • The Intelligent Design movement has been unequivocally identified as thinly veiled Creationism in the courts and is nothing less than an all out attack to redefine science itself to substitute supernatural explanations of natural phenomenon in place of rational scientific investigations of cause and effect.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

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