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scasely (not comparable)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, colloquial, dated) scarcely; hardly
   • 1551 [1516], Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson), transl., Utopia, translation of original by Sir Thomas More:

     For it scasely ever chaunceth that the moste vertuous amonge vertuous

   • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It:

     If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic. Scasely. He was down on 'em. His word was, 'No Irish need apply!'