Synonyms for sparsely
sparse·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. sparselyadverb

   in a sparse manner

   "sparsely inhabited"

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1. List of paraphrases for "sparsely":

   thinly, weakly, poorly, rarely, little, scarcely

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1. Darryl Pitt:

   Finding meteorites in woods of Maine. It’s not the simplest of the environments, it’s a sparsely populated area but not as sparsely populated as where most meteorites fall — the ocean.

2. Dan Malloy:

   The vote of every American citizen should count equally, yet under the current system, voters from sparsely populated states are awarded significantly more power than those from states like Connecticut, this is fundamentally unfair.

3. Ray Pruitt:

   It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide.

4. Gary Neal:

   This property was set aside for port industrial use, this is a very limited area that might be sparsely fished. There's hundreds of miles of shoreline that have good access for fishing.

5. United States:

   Why not shoot Western Mindanao down ? We have to do the risk-reward here, so the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in United States in the United States homeland ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side ? Our best assessment right now is that it does not. So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it was n’t worth it.