sparingly adv 1: to a meager degree or in a meager manner; "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources" [syn: {meagerly}, {sparingly}, {slenderly}, {meagrely}] [ant: {amply}, {fully}, {richly}]
Sparing \Spar"ing\, a. Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] -- {Spar"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Spar"ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "sparingly": cannily, carefully, charily, economically, frugally, husbandly, in moderation, meagerly, moderately, poorly, providently, prudently, punily, scantily, slightly, sparely, sparsely, stintingly, temperately, thin, thriftily, within bounds, within compass