Deficiently
Deficiently adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: the road to the mountain lodge is so deficiently marked that we had a terrible time finding it
Scantly and deficiently are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scantly" instead an adverb "Deficiently".
Nearby Words: deficient, deficiency
Scantly
Deficiently and scantly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deficiently" instead an adverb "Scantly".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- little and deficiently
- little and scantly
- bad and deficiently
- bad and scantly
- moderately and deficiently
- moderately and scantly
- partially and deficiently
- partially and scantly
- poorly and deficiently
- poorly and scantly
- badly and deficiently
- badly and scantly
- niggardly and deficiently
- niggardly and scantly
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