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Adverb: sparingly  speh-ring-lee
  1. To a meagre degree or in a meagre manner
    "these voices are sparingly represented at the conference";
    - meagerly [N. Amer], slenderly, meagrely [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. Economically or frugally
    "They lived sparingly to save money for their children's education"