ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Scatteringly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Scatteringly is an adverb meaning in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.

Meaning

in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.

Example Sentences

The other men trooped along scatteringly, dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scatteredly, dispersedly, sparsely, scattily, patchily, fragmentedly.

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