remotely vs scarcely

remotely

adv
  • Not much; scarcely; hardly. 

  • At a distance, far away. 

scarcely

adv
  • Hardly: only just; by a small margin. 

  • Probably not. 

  • Certainly not. 

How often have the words remotely and scarcely occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )