meaning of scarcely
1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
2. Frugally; penuriously.
3. by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W. B. Yeats
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