Talk:scarcely
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Rfv-sense: In a scarce manner. Other senses now split out. DCDuring TALK 23:13, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
- Sense doesn't seem to make much grammatical sense. I think the other three definitions for this word cover the entry quite well, and therefore, I believe we should delete the sense. Razorflame 23:15, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
- I can't see what it would mean that isn't covered by the other senses. Equinox ◑ 06:25, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
RFV failed, sense removed. —RuakhTALK 15:06, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
almost never[edit]
“Hardly” and “scarcely” can mean “almost never,” unlike “barely”: She hardly (ever) sees her parents these days. --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:58, 26 June 2021 (UTC)