Synonyms for thinly
thin·ly

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1. thinlyadverb

   without force or sincere effort

   "smiled thinly"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, densely, thick

2. thinly, thinadverb

   without viscosity

   "the blood was flowing thin"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

3. thinly, lightlyadverb

   in a small quantity or extent

   "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"

   Synonyms:
   gently, thin, softly, light, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

4. thinlyadverb

   in a widely distributed manner

   "thinly overgrown mountainside"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

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1. List of paraphrases for "thinly":

   sparsely, poorly, weakly

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1. Dick Durbin:

   In an interview with NBC News, President (Donald) Trump admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because of his investigation of the Trump campaign's Russian connections, that is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law.

2. Frances Haugen:

   Facebook is extremely thinly staffed... and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren't willing to work there.

3. Elisha Frank:

   We move quickly to protect investors when we see thinly traded stocks being promoted with questionable information that make them ripe for pump-and-dump schemes, Fraudsters are constantly exploiting issues of public concern to tout a penny stock company supposedly in the business of addressing the latest crisis.

4. David Mamet:

   The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

5. Lukas Erichsen:

   Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.