Synonyms for thinly
thin·ly

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1. thinlyadverb

   without force or sincere effort

   "smiled thinly"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, densely, thick

2. thinly, thinadverb

   without viscosity

   "the blood was flowing thin"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

3. thinly, lightlyadverb

   in a small quantity or extent

   "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"

   Synonyms:
   gently, thin, softly, light, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

4. thinlyadverb

   in a widely distributed manner

   "thinly overgrown mountainside"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

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1. List of paraphrases for "thinly":

   sparsely, poorly, weakly

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1. Jeremy Farrar:

   It's so thinly stretched, there's arguably no organization on earth that could cover all those (topics) at sufficient depth to be authoritative.

2. Elisha Frank:

   We move quickly to protect investors when we see thinly traded stocks being promoted with questionable information that make them ripe for pump-and-dump schemes, Fraudsters are constantly exploiting issues of public concern to tout a penny stock company supposedly in the business of addressing the latest crisis.

3. Douglas Keith:

   Justice Sotomayor was attacked for her temperament. Conservatives asked,' Is she too combative ? Is she smart enough ?' All of these thinly veiled attacks on her because of what they saw as identity politics, today, she stands out on the court as the justice most likely to speak up about the impact of the court's decisions on people's lives.

4. Frances Haugen:

   Facebook is extremely thinly staffed... and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren't willing to work there.

5. Emerson Sykes:

   Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.