scantily vs scarcely

scantily

adv
  • Sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner. 

scarcely

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

  • Probably not. 

  • Certainly not. 

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