1. thinly - Adjective
2. thinly - Adverb
In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPatriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us. Chris Hedges
As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. Shunroku Hata
How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint. Henry Rollins
The literary James Bond is a creation of prewar London club-land: upper-crust, snobbish, manipulative and cruel in his relationships with women, with a thinly veiled sadomasochistic streak and a coldly ruthless attitude to his opponents that verges on the psychopathic. Charles Stross
My contention is that the psychiatric perspective on homosexuality is but a thinly disguised replica of the religious perspective which it displaced, and that efforts to "treat” this kind of conduct medically are but thinly disguised methods for suppressing it. Thomas Szasz
Honest poverty is thinly sown. French Proverb