slenderly

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English

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Etymology

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From slender +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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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 []