scarcely

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scarce·ly / ˈske(ə)rslē/ • adv. only just; almost not: her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying. ∎  only a very short time before: she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open. ∎  used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case: they could scarcely all be wrong.

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