adverb
1. : in a faint manner
for a few seconds he faintly struggled with the man — Charles Dickens
his senses alive so faintly as to be useless — Nigel Dennis
2. : to a faint degree : slightly , indistinctly
showing faintly at the right of the picture — G.R.Stewart
faintly blue hills — Hugh Walpole
rumors … which weren't even faintly true — Scott Fitzgerald