scantily clad
English
Alternative forms
- scantily-clad
Adjective
scantily clad (comparative more scantily clad, superlative most scantily clad)
- Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.
- 1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule. […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 27:
- Here were no haggard savages, unkempt and scantily clad, coming forth from their dens in the rocks to stare wildly at the strangers.
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
- A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).
Synonyms
- cladly dressed (rare, nonstandard, proscribed)
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