scantily clad

• scantily-clad

scantily clad (comparative more scantily clad, superlative most scantily clad)

1. Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.
   • 1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule. […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 27:

     Here were no haggard savages, unkempt and scantily clad, coming forth from their dens in the rocks to stare wildly at the strangers.

   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:

     A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).

• cladly dressed (rare, nonstandard, proscribed)