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Sparingly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.

    "The Mark Tree is generally used as an effect to accentuate transitions in music, either at the beginning or end of a phrase. When used sparingly, they ^([sic]) can add an exotic "shimmer" effect."

Adverb
  1. 1
    to a meager degree or in a meager manner wordnet

Etymology

From sparing + -ly.

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