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sparing
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-ly
Pronunciation
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Hyphenation
: spa‧ring‧ly
Adverb
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Positive
sparingly
Comparative
more
sparingly
Superlative
most
sparingly
If you use something
sparingly
, you use it in
moderation
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Terms suffixed with -ly
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Adverbs suffixed with -ly