SPARINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sparingly mean? 

• SPARINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SPARINGLY has 1 sense:

1. to a meager degree or in a meager manner

  Familiarity information: SPARINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPARINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a meager degree or in a meager manner

Synonyms:

meagerly; meagrely; slenderly; sparingly

Context example:

the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources

Pertainym:

sparing (avoiding waste)

 Context examples 

Boldo leaf oil is toxic and is used sparingly in preparations for gastrointestinal or genitourinary illnesses.

(Boldo Leaf Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

For, though shy, he did not seem reserved; it had rather the appearance of feelings glad to burst their usual restraints; and having talked of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other; he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)