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English
Adjective
scantily clad (comparative more scantily clad, superlative most scantily clad)
- Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.
1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule. , New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 27:Here were no haggard savages, unkempt and scantily clad, coming forth from their dens in the rocks to stare wildly at the strangers.
1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).
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wearing little clothing, almost naked