scarcely

“Scarcely” is a negative adverb and shouldn’t have another negative word used with it. “She couldn’t scarcely afford the bus fare” should be “She could scarcely afford the bus fare.”

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• any where vs anywhere
• grill vs grille
• benefactor vs beneficiary
• pastorial vs pastoral
• invested interest vs vested interest
• flys vs flies
• epitomy vs epitome
• seam vs seem
• below table vs table below
• whimp vs wimp

Definitions

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• r  only a very short time before
  had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
• r  almost not
  they scarcely ever used the emergency generator

News & Articles

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• Catch Elusive Mercury in June's Night Sky
  The planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five bright planets to see. Called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the sun than Earth's, Mercury — scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus is — always appears from our vantage point to be in the same general direction as the sun and is usually lost in the sunlight.
  June 13, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• Still time to catch sight of elusive Mercury
  By Joe RaoSpace.comThe planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five bright planets to see. Called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the sun than Earth's, Mercury — scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus is — always appears from our vantage point to be in the same general direction as the sun and is usually lost in the sunlight.Yet Mercury is not ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Catch Elusive Mercury in June's Night Sky
  The planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five bright planets to see. Called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the sun than Earth's, Mercury — scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus is — always appears from our vantage point to be in the same general direction as the sun and is usually lost in the sunlight.
  June 13, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News