What's the difference between scantily and sparsely?

Scantily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (2) Specifically fluorescent adrenergic axons were scantily seen among the myelinated nerve fibers in the 8th nerve and in the subepithelial regions of the end organs but not in the endolymphatic sac.
  • (3) "Why do you need the body of a scantily clad woman to sell leg wax anyway?"
  • (4) Sclerosant therapy for different pathological conditions (testicular hydrocele, pneumothorax) is a little known and scantily used procedure in the clinical setting.
  • (5) In studies employing nucleoids from nonsense strong polar mutants of the trp operon, it was demonstrated that RNA polymerase are scantily distributed over the region downstream from the nonsense mutation site of the operon, thereby supporting a notion that in vivo transcription is eventually terminated near the nonsense mutation.
  • (6) Its digital interests include Mail Online, which has seen its user numbers soar on the back of a diet of celebrity gossip and scantily clad models.
  • (7) In contrast, other regions are either scantily ciliated or devoid of cilia.
  • (8) North of the Seine, the scantily clad prostitutes huddling in the doorways of Saint Denis and Baron Haussman's grand boulevards are feistily holding out against the creeping gentrification of their traditional turf.
  • (9) A breakdown of the voting competition organisers revealed that Poland's song, We Are Slavic, featuring a group of scantily clad young women dressed as milk maids , was the runaway favourite of the British public.
  • (10) The epitopes of the three antibodies were numerously detected on the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER) (especially, on the stacks of flattened smooth ER, subsurface cisterns and spine apparatus), scantily on the rough ER and on the outer nuclear membrane, but were not detectable on either the plasmalemma, synaptic densities, mitochondria or Golgi apparatus.
  • (11) Classification of a new Sarcocystis species based either on scantily described cysts or only on sporulated oocysts or sporocysts from feces is not sufficient and cannot be justified.
  • (12) I am told that some Muslims are offended by scantily clad models that grace the side of buses.
  • (13) Information on this specific plastic is scantily reported in the literature and as a consequence a preponderance of authors unknowingly reference an article by Shonka describing an early version of a tissue substitute plastic but having a different elemental composition than the present A-150 formulation.
  • (14) Eight patients had high W.B.C., 3 irregular filling defects on X ray studies, and on endoscopy, all showed a pseudomembranous white yellowish exudate, underneath it the mucosa was inflamed, irregular and bled scantily.
  • (15) There were two scantily clad dancers and a rapper bloke who kept shouting: "Make some noise!
  • (16) These pesticides have been both poorly and scantily tested for carcinogenicity.
  • (17) RNA blot analysis and S1 nuclease mapping analysis using RNA preparations from fibroblast and gizzard tissues showed that the fibroblast MLC mRNA is expressed predominantly in fibroblast cells, but not, or very scantily if at all, in the gizzard, whereas the reverse is true for the gizzard smooth muscle MLC mRNA.
  • (18) Although effeminacy is recognized to be a complex and important phenomenon, until now it has been only scantily studied, and has not been clearly defined or measured.
  • (19) latero-dorsalis sends out fibres throughout the region of the above listed nuclei while projecting only scantily to the anterior nuclei and to the ventrobasal complex.
  • (20) The ad, which promoted russianbrides.com, featured a scantily-clad woman showing cleavage and pouting at viewers.

Sparsely


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a scattered or sparse manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
  • (2) Fifteen days after axotomy of the olfactory nerves, two stained patterns which were numerously or sparsely labelled regions were observed.
  • (3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
  • (4) Sparse cell plating densities were used to minimize cell-cell contact formation and all studies were carried out in chemically defined medium that contained a saturating amount of soluble growth factors.
  • (5) With this modification one obtains, for sparsely ionizing radiation, a quality factor which is proportional to the dose average of lineal energy, y.
  • (6) Long term data on thiazide monotherapy are sparse but suggest a persistence of the lipid effect for as long as 6 years of treatment.
  • (7) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
  • (8) We have investigated alternative ways of showing variations in child health by using different aggregations of Enumeration Districts (ED) in a small, sparsely populated rural area.
  • (9) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
  • (10) Fewer, but still ample numbers, of SP-reactive axons are present also in the ventral tegmental and retrorubral areas of the midbrain tegmentum and in the ventral pallidum of the basal forebrain, but only sparse ME-reactive axons are present in these areas.
  • (11) Histologically, vascular lesions such as vacuolization, degeneration and desquamation of the endothelium and hyalinization and necrosis of the muscular coat predominated, whereas reparatory reactions were relatively sparse.
  • (12) Two principal classes of striatum long axonal neurons (sparsely ramified reticular cells and densely ramified dendritic cells) were analyzed quantitatively in four animal species: hedgehog, rabbit, dog and monkey.
  • (13) Instead the government insists that the sparse legislative agenda reflected a streamlining of government priorities to help it better cope with the downturn.
  • (14) The situation of high cell density could be mimicked by the addition of glutaraldehyde-fixed cells to sparsely seeded proliferating cells.
  • (15) Delta opioid labeling was sparse throughout most of the hypothalamus; however, moderate binding densities were detected in the suprachiasmatic and ventromedial nucleus.
  • (16) Except for sparse labeling in lamina I in some of the cases and some minor differences rostrocaudally, the spinal distribution of labeling was similar to that from the other nerves investigated.
  • (17) This hypothesis is supported by the observation that the single cell type which continues to express the vimentin-IFAPa-400 combination in the mature heart is the Purkinje fibres, which are also subjected to high mechanical tensions but in which myofibrils are generally sparse compared to working myocytes.
  • (18) Collateral coronary blood flow was fairly sparse in most cases and in 4 left ventricular dysfunction of varying degree was present.
  • (19) The technique of long-term, open catheterization of the spinal subarachnoid space for infusion of analgesics in patients with refractory cancer pain is sparsely reported in the literature.
  • (20) A sparse adrenergic innervation of the detrusor muscle was found.

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