Synonyms for thinly
thin·ly

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1. thinlyadverb

   without force or sincere effort

   "smiled thinly"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, densely, thick

2. thinly, thinadverb

   without viscosity

   "the blood was flowing thin"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

3. thinly, lightlyadverb

   in a small quantity or extent

   "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"

   Synonyms:
   gently, thin, softly, light, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

4. thinlyadverb

   in a widely distributed manner

   "thinly overgrown mountainside"

   Synonyms:
   thin, lightly

   Antonyms:
   thickly, thick, densely

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1. List of paraphrases for "thinly":

   sparsely, poorly, weakly

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1. Emerson Sykes:

   Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.

2. David Mamet:

   The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

3. Douglas Keith:

   Justice Sotomayor was attacked for her temperament. Conservatives asked,' Is she too combative ? Is she smart enough ?' All of these thinly veiled attacks on her because of what they saw as identity politics, today, she stands out on the court as the justice most likely to speak up about the impact of the court's decisions on people's lives.

4. Liora Rez:

   The thinly veiled intent behind AOC’s tweet to vilify a Jewish organization is crystal clear and further contributes to the vilification of American Jews, aOC’s intentional isolation of AIPAC and her failure to call out the numerous bipartisan and left-leaning groups working to keep Justice Democrat candidate Summer Lee out of office shows her true colors.

5. Richard Hill:

   Given that CLO managers are typically thinly capitalized, it is hard to envision that many small managers will have access to the long-term capital that risk-retention rules would require, unlike the last CLO manager consolidation cycle that followed the financial crisis, we believe this time around the consolidation economics are not as compelling given a combination of smaller post-crisis CLO management fees and shorter reinvestment periods.