scantily clad

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scantily clad (comparative more scantily clad, superlative most scantily clad)

  1. Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.
    • 1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule. [], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 27:
      Here were no haggard savages, unkempt and scantily clad, coming forth from their dens in the rocks to stare wildly at the strangers.
    • 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
      A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).

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