scatteringly

adv

Etymology

From scattering + -ly.

Definitions

  1. 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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