scatteringly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
scattering + -ly
Adverb[edit]
scatteringly (comparative more scatteringly, superlative most scatteringly)
- in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
- 1908, Alice MacGowan, Judith of the Cumberlands[1]:
- She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly, pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top.
- 1899, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories[2]:
- 'My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee.
- 1895, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Riddle Of The Rocks[3]:
- The other men trooped along scatteringly, dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees.