slenderly

English

Etymology

slender +‎ -ly

Adverb

slenderly (comparative more slenderly, superlative most slenderly)

1. Thinly, slightly, delicately.

   The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.

2. meagrely; deficiently
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […]