half-deserted

British  

adjective

1. (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc

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half-deserted

The silent, half-deserted streets were flanked by houses covered with satellite dishes and water tanks.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2023

Not just anywhere in the West, but the half-deserted, sandy vastness of the far suburbs of Las Vegas, beautifully shot by the film’s ace cinematographer Roger Deakins on the outskirts of Albuquerque.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2019

Short on cash when he arrived, he ended up living in a half-deserted section of Lower Manhattan near South Street Seaport, in a 19th-century sailmaker’s loft on Coenties Slip.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015

Hitch a lift with an army truck heading across Pinklao Bridge, which spans the swollen Chao Phraya River near the Grand Palace, and you descend into the grim, half-deserted waterworld that is now western Bangkok.

From Time ● Oct. 29, 2011

Then they are obliged either to wander over the half-deserted places, gathering here and there a sou, or shut themselves up in their garret or cellar apartments, and live upon their summer gains.

From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by Bartlett, David W.