25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Scantily \Scant"i*ly\, adverb In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

His mind was very scantily stored with materials. --Macaulay.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

scantily

adverb: in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" [syn: {barely}]
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