scatteringly
advEtymology
From scattering + -ly.
Definitions
in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
- 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.
- '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.
- The other men trooped along scatteringly, dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees.
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